{"id":45,"date":"2006-11-22T01:09:17","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T01:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.neolefty.org\/wordpress\/?p=45"},"modified":"2006-11-22T01:09:17","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T01:09:17","slug":"nuclear-vernacular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/22\/nuclear-vernacular\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Vernacular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed that nuc<b>ular<\/b> is in the vernac<b>ular<\/b>, since Webster&#8217;s accepts now it as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/dictionary\/nuclear\">secondary pronunciation<\/a>.  Does that mean that there should be a vernac<b>lear<\/b> with nuc<b>lear<\/b> in it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><span style=\"font:sans-serif\">vernaclear<i> [v&#038;(r)-&#8216;na-klE-&#038;r]:<\/i><\/span><\/b> <i>(adj)<\/i> the way a word that is commonly mispronounced or misspelled <i>should<\/i> be pronounced or spelled, especially if the mistaken form has muscled its way into becoming an accepted form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And if we use this new word enough, it will find its way into the lexicon as well.  But would that be paradoxical, or self-fulfilling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed that nucular is in the vernacular, since Webster&#8217;s accepts now it as a secondary pronunciation. Does that mean that there should be a vernaclear with nuclear in it? vernaclear [v&#038;(r)-&#8216;na-klE-&#038;r]: (adj) the way a word that is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/22\/nuclear-vernacular\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fleeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}