{"id":1549,"date":"2012-07-28T16:36:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2012-07-22T16:37:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T16:37:51","slug":"pronouncing-street-names-in-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/28\/pronouncing-street-names-in-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Pronouncing street names in Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve not yet had the chance to visit Denmark, but apparently their street names are notoriously difficult to pronounce.<\/p>\n<p>A lovely installation in Copenhagen aims to help out tourists with this problem. WTPh? (What the Phonics) has added speakers to street signs, with a recording of the street name playing. When participants lift the speaker off the wall, the recording starts playing the street name \u2013 first broken down into syllables and then spoken in full. The names are spoken by a Danish person, so you can be sure they are correct!<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeapplications.net\/android\/wtph-what-the-phonics-pronouncing-street-names-in-denmark\/\">project video<\/a> to see how it works. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve not yet had the chance to visit Denmark, but apparently their street names are notoriously difficult to pronounce. A lovely installation in Copenhagen aims to help out tourists with this problem. WTPh? (What the Phonics) has added speakers to street signs, with a recording of the street name playing. When participants lift the speaker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,83],"tags":[999,1143,25,83],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-pronunciation","tag-danish","tag-danish-language","tag-languages","tag-pronunciation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}