{"id":16360,"date":"2006-01-28T00:25:11","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T08:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/01\/28\/tourbillon.html"},"modified":"2006-01-28T00:25:11","modified_gmt":"2006-01-28T08:25:11","slug":"tourbillon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/01\/28\/tourbillon\/","title":{"rendered":"tourbillon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote>\n<p>[...] he was scarred, the skin twisted and pulled as if in fright. Or caught in a powerful wind; although [...] there was a dead, waxy gleam to the white skin that made it look wrong, frozen in its peculiar tourbillons.<\/p>\n<p>--<cite>On<\/cite>, by Adam Roberts, p. 116 of the 2002 Gollancz paperback edition<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A tourbillon (or tourbillion) is a whirlwind or vortex; it's related to \"turbine.\"<\/p>\n<p>According to MW11, \"tourbillion\" is pronounced American-style, \/tUr 'bIl j@n\/, while \"tourbillon\" is pronounced French-style, \/tur bi jo~\/. (Yes, I'm trying yet again to make you learn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpl.hp.com\/personal\/Evan_Kirshenbaum\/IPA\/english.html\">ASCII IPA<\/a>, though it turns out these days there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blahedo.org\/ascii-ipa.html\">multiple ASCII IPA systems<\/a>, and Unicode is a lot better supported so I could just use real IPA characters.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&#8230;] he was scarred, the skin twisted and pulled as if in fright. Or caught in a powerful wind; although [&#8230;] there was a dead, waxy gleam to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}