{"id":18431,"date":"2022-02-02T23:16:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T07:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18431"},"modified":"2022-02-02T23:16:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T07:16:34","slug":"role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2022\/02\/02\/role\/","title":{"rendered":"r\u00f4le"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I just started reading a Poe book which is the third book I\u2019ve picked up in the past week that spells <i>role<\/i> as <i>r\u00f4le<\/i>. Given the publication dates and authors of the books in question, it\u2019s been unclear to me whether the use of the circumflex was (a) British, (b) old-fashioned, or (c) both.<\/p>\r\n<p>So I finally looked it up. I found a semi-useful discussion on <a href=\"https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/15488\/what-is-the-distinction-between-role-and-r\u00f4le-with-a-circumflex\">Stack Exchange<\/a> that leads me to suspect option C; at least one modern British person who responded there uses the circumflex, but at least two others don\u2019t.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u2026I\u2019ve been occasionally seeing <i>r\u00f4le<\/i> used all my life, but I think that for many years I assumed it was a French word that meant something else entirely; it seemed obvious to me that if it just meant \u201crole,\u201d it wouldn\u2019t have a circumflex.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diacritics","category-spelling-orthography"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18431","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=18431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18432,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18431\/revisions\/18432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}