{"id":167,"date":"2006-02-05T19:18:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T00:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=167"},"modified":"2007-09-03T18:20:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T22:20:01","slug":"etymological-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Etymological Stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wanting to make a big pot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorweevil.org\/archives\/000867.html\">Mulligatawny soup<\/a> a few nights ago, I finally got around to unpacking my Christmas blender. Consulting the manual, I was amused to discover that the Spanish name is the macho and sinister &#8216;licuadora&#8217;, while the French name is the wimpy and over-educated &#8216;m&eacute;langeur&#8217;. I suppose the effect is partially offset by the Spanish liquidator being grammatically feminine (would that make it a &#8216;liquidatrix&#8217; in English?), while the French melange-maker is grammatically masculine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanting to make a big pot of Mulligatawny soup a few nights ago, I finally got around to unpacking my Christmas blender. Consulting the manual, I was amused to discover that the Spanish name is the macho and sinister &#8216;licuadora&#8217;, while the French name is the wimpy and over-educated &#8216;m&eacute;langeur&#8217;. I suppose the effect is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orbilius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}