{"id":13620,"date":"2012-01-08T00:13:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2012-01-08T00:13:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:13:35","slug":"a-symbol-for-is-pronounced-the-same-as-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/a-symbol-for-is-pronounced-the-same-as-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A symbol for &quot;is pronounced the same as&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2012\/01\/07\/4794\/\">blog posting<\/a> made me think about the lack of a symbol for &#8220;is pronounced the same as&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What I mean is that instead of writing that &#8220;<i>write<\/i> is pronounced the same as <i>right<\/i>&#8220;, we could just write &#8220;<i>write<\/i> \u2257 <i>right<\/i>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>I here used the symbol &#8220;\u2257&#8221;, not because I think it&#8217;s ideal, but because it&#8217;s available.  Other available Unicode characters based on the equal sign include the following: \u2258 \u2259 \u225a \u225b \u225c \u225d \u225e<\/p>\n<p>However, ideally I think I&#8217;d want square brackets on top of an equal sign because pronunciations are given in square brackets, like this:<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/pronsameas.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/pronsameas.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"pronounced the same as\" width=\"88\" height=\"111\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4919\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does anybody know of any existing symbol that has been used for this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s blog posting made me think about the lack of a symbol for &#8220;is pronounced the same as&#8221;. What I mean is that instead of writing that &#8220;write is pronounced the same as right&#8220;, we could just write &#8220;write \u2257 right&#8220;. I here used the symbol &#8220;\u2257&#8221;, not because I think it&#8217;s ideal, but because it&#8217;s available. Other available Unicode characters based on the equal sign include the following: \u2258 \u2259 \u225a \u225b \u225c \u225d \u225e However, ideally I think I&#8217;d want square brackets on top of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,117,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics","category-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}