{"id":354,"date":"2008-06-03T16:53:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T20:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/354"},"modified":"2008-06-03T16:53:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T20:53:39","slug":"bizarre-homonyms-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/354","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre homonyms of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(OK, properly speaking, these are homophones &#8211; but way back when, my teachers confused me and homonym is the word that pops up first.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordnet.princeton.edu\/perl\/webwn?s=au%20fait\"><em>Au fait<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/ofay\"><em>ofay<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p> I heard a reporter on the radio just now describe some Mexican kids as <em>au fait<\/em> (the story was on the anti-emokid violence in Mexico). For a confusing instant, I heard ofay and the sentence made no sense to me. Then my head reoriented &#8211; a grin ensued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(OK, properly speaking, these are homophones &#8211; but way back when, my teachers confused me and homonym is the word that pops up first.) Au fait and ofay I heard a reporter on the radio just now describe some Mexican &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/354\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-5I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}