{"id":169,"date":"2006-09-23T20:51:46","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/23\/zmrzlina\/"},"modified":"2006-09-23T20:51:46","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:51:46","slug":"zmrzlina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; zmrzlina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/zmrzlina.mp3\">zmrzlina<\/a> [zmrzl\u026ana] = ice, ice cream, sherbet, sorbet<\/p>\n<p>This tongue twister of word came up in today&#8217;s Czech lesson. I had to listen to it many times before attempting to pronounce it. This is quite an extreme example of the tricky consonant clusters common in Czech. I also find the \u0159 [r\u0292] sound particularly difficult, especially at the beginnings of words, such as in <em>\u0159\u00edzek<\/em> [r\u0292i:z\u025bk] (schnitzel), and <em>\u0159ekne<\/em> [r\u0292\u025bkn\u025b], as in <em>Jak se \u0159ekne \u010desky &#8230;?<\/em> (How do you say &#8230; in Czech?).  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemica.com\/czechonline\/reference\/pronunciation\/consonants.htm\">this site<\/a>, even some Czechs have difficultly with this sound!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>zmrzlina [zmrzl\u026ana] = ice, ice cream, sherbet, sorbet This tongue twister of word came up in today&#8217;s Czech lesson. I had to listen to it many times before attempting to pronounce it. This is quite an extreme example of the tricky consonant clusters common in Czech. I also find the \u0159 [r\u0292] sound particularly difficult, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}