Conversation I had with our senior minister yesterday:<\/p>\n
Senior minister: I’ve been thinking about low turnout in our evening classes. What are we going to do about adultery?<\/p>\n
Me: Wha—? Oh! — you mean “adult RE.”<\/p>\n
Senior minister: Um, that’s what I said. [Looks at me strangely.]<\/p>\n
Me: [explaining that when one pronounces “adult” with a soft “a” sound and the accent on the second syllable, “adult RE” sounds like “ah-DULT<\/strong>-ah-ree.”] So you have to say it: “A<\/strong>-dult”.<\/p>\n Senior minister: [laughing]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Conversation I had with our senior minister yesterday: Senior minister: I’ve been thinking about low turnout in our evening classes. What are we going to do about adultery? Me: Wha—? Oh! — you mean “adult RE.” Senior minister: Um, that’s what I said. [Looks at me strangely.] Me: [explaining that when one pronounces “adult” with … Continue reading “Pronunciation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-3831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-miscellany","tag-uu-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3832,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}