{"id":495,"date":"2007-10-17T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=495"},"modified":"2007-10-17T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T21:54:00","slug":"mc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/mc\/","title":{"rendered":"Mc"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mckenzee\/1579691252\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2375\/1579691252_681adc1801_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mckenzee\/1579691252\/\">kilt<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/mckenzee\/\">mckenzee<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>I noticed that the BBC on their website called one of the Georgian goal-scorers against Scotland <i>McHedlidze<\/i>. He is, of course, called ???????? \/mt?&#8217;edlidze\/, so the <i>ch<\/i> is a digraph, like in <i>China<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of a web page I once saw that was selling a book by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli\">McHiavelli<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What will be next?  Will people start calling certain types of parrots <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macaw\">McAws<\/a>?  And will we all start eating McAroni Cheese?<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kilt Originally uploaded by mckenzee I noticed that the BBC on their website called one of the Georgian goal-scorers against Scotland McHedlidze. He is, of course, called ???????? \/mt?&#8217;edlidze\/, so the ch is a digraph, like in China. It reminds me of a web page I once saw that was selling a book by McHiavelli. What will be next? Will people start calling certain types of parrots McAws? And will we all start eating McAroni Cheese?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}