{"id":7392,"date":"2016-04-04T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T13:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=7392"},"modified":"2016-04-04T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T13:26:14","slug":"words-schmords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/04\/04\/words-schmords\/","title":{"rendered":"Words schmords!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using <em>schm-<\/em> to substitute for the first letter of the second word in a reduplication automatically makes the resultant phrase dismissive and contemptuous, neatly encapsulating, for example, my feelings about the lingering cold weather: <em>Winter schminter!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Apparently this comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shm-reduplication\">Yiddish,<\/a> where the <em>word + sch- + [word minus first letter]<\/em> concatenation performs exactly the same function.<\/p>\n<p>Prescriptivists schmecriptivists!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using schm- to substitute for the first letter of the second word in a reduplication automatically makes the resultant phrase dismissive and contemptuous, neatly encapsulating, for example, my feelings about the lingering cold weather: Winter schminter! Apparently this comes from Yiddish, where the word + sch- + [word minus first letter] concatenation performs exactly the&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/04\/04\/words-schmords\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Words schmords!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[639],"class_list":["post-7392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7394,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions\/7394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}