{"id":8931,"date":"2024-12-18T22:09:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T14:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=8931"},"modified":"2024-12-18T22:09:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T14:09:40","slug":"alphabetic-s-for-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2024\/alphabetic-s-for-ms\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabetic &#8216;s&#8217; for Ms."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Victor Mair posted an image from Taichung of an apostrophe r representing &#8220;Mr.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=67347\">Alphabetic &#8220;Mr.&#8221; and &#8220;Mrs. \/ Ms.&#8221; in Chinese<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a companion image for a Ms. Huang. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2024\/12\/huang_apostrophe_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2024\/12\/huang_apostrophe_s-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"779\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2024\/12\/huang_apostrophe_s-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2024\/12\/huang_apostrophe_s-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/news_photos\/2024\/12\/huang_apostrophe_s.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Victor Mair posted an image from Taichung of an apostrophe r representing &#8220;Mr.&#8221; (Alphabetic &#8220;Mr.&#8221; and &#8220;Mrs. \/ Ms.&#8221; in Chinese) Here&#8217;s a companion image for a Ms. Huang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,893,110,37,12,41,33,30,32,39,36,35,38,3,34,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet","category-apostrophe","category-banqiao","category-beijing","category-chinese","category-english","category-hokkien","category-korean","category-mandarin","category-olympics","category-shanghainese","category-sign-language","category-software","category-taiwan","category-taiwanese","category-victor-h-mair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931","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=8931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8933,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions\/8933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}