{"id":7975,"date":"2017-08-24T11:33:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T11:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=7975"},"modified":"2017-08-24T14:34:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T14:34:10","slug":"homophone-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=7975","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood&#8217;s homophone corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an adage often attributed to Irish playwright <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/george-bernard-shaw-9480925\">George Bernard Shaw<\/a>, it&#8217;s popularly said that Britain and the USA are two countries divided by a common language.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m therefore wondering whether for reasons of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/dictionary\/english\/homophony\">homophony<\/a> (<em>particularly in view of some British regional accents. Ed,<\/em>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5034266\/\">this forthcoming American film<\/a> starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford will be renamed for the British market&#8230; \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2017\/08\/our_souls-600x303.png\" alt=\"film title is Our Souls At Night\" width=\"600\" height=\"303\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2017\/08\/our_souls.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2017\/08\/our_souls-300x152.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an adage often attributed to Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, it&#8217;s popularly said that Britain and the USA are two countries divided by a common language. I&#8217;m therefore wondering whether for reasons of homophony (particularly in view of some British regional accents. Ed,), this forthcoming American film starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,17],"tags":[16,22,33],"class_list":["post-7975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7981,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975\/revisions\/7981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}