{"id":987,"date":"2011-02-27T19:37:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T19:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/?p=987"},"modified":"2011-02-27T19:38:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T19:38:54","slug":"gaelic-names-are-always-the-hardest-to-pronounce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2011\/02\/27\/gaelic-names-are-always-the-hardest-to-pronounce\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaelic names are always the hardest to pronounce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m spending all weekend in the office, working on a couple of grants that are due tomorrow. Being even more in need of sanity breaks (such as this quick blogging break) than usual, I took a nice refreshing walk in the snow yesterday lunchtime to a nearby Safeway. The cashier was new, and unusually chatty as she rang up my sandwich, milk (tea consumption is at an all-time high), fruit smoothie, and chocolate (an essential item). As I handed over my Safeway loyalty card and air miles card, she glanced at the latter and asked, &#8220;how do you pronounce your last name?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Um, Ennis&#8221;, I replied.<\/p>\n<p>She gave me an <em>extremely<\/em> strange look as she took my cash and handed back my cards.<\/p>\n<p>As I was walking away, putting the cards and change back in my wallet, I noticed that I haven&#8217;t yet changed my name on my air miles card. (I&#8217;ve been married 3 and a bit years, but hey, some name changes have a higher priority than others).<\/p>\n<p>Now.<\/p>\n<p>Asking someone how you pronounce &#8220;Dunn&#8221; is a bit weird, no?<\/p>\n<p>However, I have to accept that answering with &#8220;Ennis&#8221; is even weirder.<\/p>\n<p>I should probably avoid that checkout line for a wee while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m spending all weekend in the office, working on a couple of grants that are due tomorrow. Being even more in need of sanity breaks (such as this quick blogging break) than usual, I took a nice refreshing walk in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2011\/02\/27\/gaelic-names-are-always-the-hardest-to-pronounce\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,48,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-glorious-food","category-grant-wrangling","category-personal","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}