{"id":842,"date":"2014-06-21T20:21:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T20:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2014-08-26T21:49:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T21:49:57","slug":"words-whose-acronyms-take-longer-to-pronounce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/842","title":{"rendered":"Words whose acronyms take longer to pronounce"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>WWW<\/li>\n<li>WWII<\/li>\n<li>WTF<\/li>\n<li>maybe any acronym with W in it, possibly no other acronyms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, just thought of an acronym with a W that might be an abbreviation of its source: WWF. Theory-wise, this phenomenon should be a puzzle for researchers who assume that efficiency is an important factor in language change and evolution.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWW WWII WTF maybe any acronym with W in it, possibly no other acronyms Oh, just thought of an acronym with a W that might be an abbreviation of its source: WWF. Theory-wise, this phenomenon should be a puzzle for researchers who assume that efficiency is an important factor in language change and evolution.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}