{"id":439,"date":"2006-06-11T10:24:12","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T02:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/w-use-letter\/"},"modified":"2006-06-11T10:24:12","modified_gmt":"2006-06-11T02:24:12","slug":"w-use-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/w-use-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"W-use letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt at <a href=\"http:\/\/no-sword.jp\/blog\/\">No-sword<\/a> talks about the uses of the letter W in Japan: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMany English initialisms are used in Japan, like CM for &#8220;commercial [movie]&#8221;, but W is a special letter: it can represent meaning all by itself. This is because it is generally pronounced &#8220;double&#8221; instead of &#8220;double-u&#8221;, so it&#8217;s handy for referring to things that are doubled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole piece: <a href=\"http:\/\/no-sword.jp\/blog\/2006\/06\/let-pretending-to-be-injured-begin.html\">Let the pretending to be injured begin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt at No-sword talks about the uses of the letter W in Japan: Many English initialisms are used in Japan, like CM for &#8220;commercial [movie]&#8221;, but W is a special letter: it can represent meaning all by itself. This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/w-use-letter\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29,28,19,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-japanese","category-languages","category-romanization","category-writing-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}