{"id":99,"date":"2006-01-03T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log2\/?p=99"},"modified":"2016-01-31T07:58:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T12:58:56","slug":"hey-doll-how-bout-we-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/2006\/01\/hey-doll-how-bout-we-neck\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Doll, how &#8217;bout we neck?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The requests continue: <a href=\"http:\/\/czechprimer.org\/words\/panenka\">Doll<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/czechprimer.org\/words\/krk\">Neck<\/a>. Krk is one of those great Czech words that teachers of Czech trot out to scare their students.  It&#8217;s an example of the letter R acting as a vowell in some Czech words.  The phenomenon is demonstrated in the well-known tongue-twister, <em>Str\u010d prst skrz krk<\/em>, or &#8220;Stick finger through neck.&#8221;  Not as quaint, perhaps, as selling seashells by the seashore, but you&#8217;ve got the work with the material you&#8217;re given.<\/p>\n<p>When I Googled the phrase I found two interesting things:  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk\">Wikipedia has an entry on it<\/a>. And you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.typotheque.com\/tshirts\/strc_prst_skrz_krk_red_t-shirt\">buy a T-Shirt<\/a> with the phrase printed on it, designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.typotheque.com\/authors\/johanna_bilak\">Slovakian typographer Johanna <s>Balu\u0161\u00edkov\u00e1<\/s> Bi\u013eak <\/a>. I totally need one of those.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The requests continue: Doll, Neck. Krk is one of those great Czech words that teachers of Czech trot out to scare their students. It&#8217;s an example of the letter R acting as a vowell in some Czech words. The phenomenon is demonstrated in the well-known tongue-twister, Str\u010d prst skrz krk, or &#8220;Stick finger through neck.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/2006\/01\/hey-doll-how-bout-we-neck\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hey Doll, how &#8217;bout we neck?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}