{"id":1530,"date":"2013-10-10T11:58:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T11:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1530"},"modified":"2014-09-01T13:23:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T13:23:41","slug":"hello-sailor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1530","title":{"rendered":"Hello, sailor!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many areas of endeavour, such as the law and medicine, tend to have their own specialised vocabulary and\/or special ways of pronouncing some words. One area which is well-known for its idiosyncratic pronunciations is sailing. Here is some nautical terminology. These words may not be very useful to you in everyday life, but they are fun anyway.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>athwart <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0259\u02c8\u03b8w\u0254\u02d0t<\/span><br \/>\nazimuth <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8\u00e6z\u026am\u0259\u03b8<\/span><br \/>\nboatswain (bosun) <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8b\u0259\u028asn<\/span><br \/>\nbowline <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8b\u0259\u028al\u026an<\/span><br \/>\nbowsprit <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8b\u0259\u028aspr\u026at<\/span><br \/>\nbulwark <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8b\u028al\u0259k<\/span><br \/>\nbuoy <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">b\u0254\u026a<\/span><br \/>\ncoxswain <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8k\u0252ksn<\/span><br \/>\nforecastle (fo&#8217;c&#8217;s&#8217;le)<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8f\u0259\u028aksl<\/span><br \/>\nforesail <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8f\u0254\u02d0sl<\/span><br \/>\ngunwale (gunnel)<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8\u0261\u028cnl<\/span><br \/>\ngybe (jibe) <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">d\u0292a\u026ab<\/span><br \/>\nleeward <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8lu\u02d0\u0259d<\/span><br \/>\nnorth (nor&#8217;) east\/west <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">n\u0254\u02d0\u02c8r i\u02d0st\/\u02c8west<\/span><br \/>\nplimsoll\/plimsole <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8pl\u026ams\u0259(\u028a)l<\/span><br \/>\nrowlock <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8r\u0252l\u0259k<\/span><br \/>\nstarboard <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8st\u0251\u02d0b\u0259d<\/span><br \/>\ntopsail <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8t\u0252psl<\/span><br \/>\nwindward <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8w\u026an\u0259d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p>Thanks to Alex Rotatori and Petr R\u00f6sel for additions<br \/>\n2013_10_10<br \/>\nUpdated 2014_09_01<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many areas of endeavour, such as the law and medicine, tend to have their own specialised vocabulary and\/or special ways of pronouncing some words. One area which is well-known for its idiosyncratic pronunciations is sailing. Here is some nautical terminology. These words may not be very useful to you in everyday life, but they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":100,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1530\/revisions\/2190"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}