{"id":677,"date":"2008-05-30T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/30\/shishlat\/"},"modified":"2008-05-30T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T16:37:00","slug":"shishlat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; \u0161i\u0161lat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word <em>\u0161i\u0161lat<\/em> is Czech and is usually translated as to lisp. However it refers to a form of speech impediment that involves substituting s \/s\/ sounds with sh \/\u0283\/ sounds. For example, <em>slim\u00e1k<\/em> (slug) is pronounced <em>\u0161lim\u00e1k<\/em>. This isn&#8217;t quite the same as a lisp in English, which usually involves replacing s \/s\/ sounds with th \/\u03b8\/ sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Can you think of a good English version of <em>\u0161i\u0161lat<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come up with &#8220;to shish&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word \u0161i\u0161lat is Czech and is usually translated as to lisp. However it refers to a form of speech impediment that involves substituting s \/s\/ sounds with sh \/\u0283\/ sounds. For example, slim\u00e1k (slug) is pronounced \u0161lim\u00e1k. This isn&#8217;t quite the same as a lisp in English, which usually involves replacing s \/s\/ sounds [&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-677","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\/677","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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}