{"id":1166,"date":"2006-07-23T13:41:04","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T16:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2006-07-28T21:47:17","modified_gmt":"2006-07-29T00:47:17","slug":"the-real-objective-is-not-an-adjective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"The real Objective is not an Adjective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">D<\/span>uring breakfast, English pronunciation came up (yeah, we tend to have endless discussions early in the morning). This time it was the word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webster.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&#038;va=adjective\">&#8216;adjective&#8217;<\/a> (Webster has a neat &#8216;pronunciation&#8217; sound file there too). It&#8217;s a word I keep pronouncing the same way as I say &#8216;objective&#8217; or &#8216;receptive&#8217;, which caused some confusion in the house. I mean, to me it appears that the official pronunciation of the word &#8216;adjective&#8217; is breaking all rules there are in English language. Oh, and the official English pronunciation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webster.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&#038;va=thermometer\">thermometer sucks too<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>That said, having been taught &#8216;British English&#8217;, I firmly believe in spelling colour as, well, &#8216;colour&#8217; and not &#8216;color&#8217;. The difference in spelling can be a daunting task if you&#8217;re a programmer(C\/C++\/Java\/Delphi) with firm feet in British English spelling: for some kind of reason, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?hl=en&#038;safe=off&#038;q=TColor&#038;btnG=Search&#038;meta=\">all programming languages<\/a> assume every programmer is living in the southern portion of North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During breakfast, English pronunciation came up (yeah, we tend to have endless discussions early in the morning). This time it was the word &#8216;adjective&#8217; (Webster has a neat &#8216;pronunciation&#8217; sound file there too). It&#8217;s a word I keep pronouncing the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1166\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}