{"id":993,"date":"2023-09-28T15:46:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2023-11-15T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:52:08","slug":"confusing-words-american-dialect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/confusing-words-american-dialect","title":{"rendered":"Some confusing words in the American dialect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some confusing words in the American dialect in both Audio and text versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Mary dear, make me merry: say you'll marry me.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><!-- Start of Audio Clip --><br><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/mp3s\/mary.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some confusing words in American dialect (4 sec) (from <a href=\"https:\/\/alt-usage-english.org\/speechexamples.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alt.usage.english<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some confusing words in the American dialect in both Audio and text versions. Mary dear, make me merry: say you&#8217;ll marry me. Your browser does not support the audio element. Some confusing words in American&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1.webp",480,270,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Richard Barker","author_link":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/author\/richard-barker"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":6,"name":"English Language History","slug":"history","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":6,"taxonomy":"category","description":"The history of the English Language.","parent":0,"count":35,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":6,"category_count":35,"category_description":"The history of the English Language.","cat_name":"English Language History","category_nicename":"history","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":6,"label":"English Language History"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoryofenglish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}