{"id":146,"date":"2011-02-20T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2015-03-21T17:08:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T21:08:42","slug":"how-do-we-say-this-word-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/how-do-we-say-this-word-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"How do we say this word? &#8211; Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/image.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/image.jpg?resize=200%2C133&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As you know pizza is popular around the world, and you have probably eaten it several times this year.\u00a0 But have you ordered pizza in a native-English speaking country before?<\/p>\n<p>If you immigrate or study abroad, you probably will have to order it at some point, if not for yourself then for your friends or kids.<\/p>\n<p>Looks can be deceiving.\u00a0 The word looks simple enough right?\u00a0 PIZZA.\u00a0 So you may think logically that you pronounce it as it is written, but that is not the case.\u00a0 In fact we North Americans pronounce this word like PETE-SA, with emphasis (stress) on the first syllable.<\/p>\n<p>So even though the writing of the word suggests PEE-ZA, trust me, it is not pronounced that way.\u00a0 You must say <strong>PETE<\/strong>-SA when ordering it in English.\u00a0 Just a fresh tip.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know pizza is popular around the world, and you have probably eaten it several times this year.\u00a0 But have you ordered pizza in a native-English speaking country before? If you immigrate or study abroad, you probably will have to order it at some point, if not for yourself then for your friends or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[537],"tags":[652,618],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speak-english-better","tag-pizza","tag-pronunciation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/image.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}