{"id":18619,"date":"2023-08-18T13:08:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T20:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18619"},"modified":"2023-08-18T13:08:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T20:08:49","slug":"xweex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2023\/08\/18\/xweex\/","title":{"rendered":"xweex"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I was wandering around in an internet rabbit hole just now, and came across two words that pleased me.<\/p>\r\n<p>Now that Twitter is called X, I\u2019ve seen some people use the word <i>xitter<\/i>, and explain that <i>x<\/i> is pronounced like <i>sh<\/i> in some contexts. That doesn\u2019t particularly appeal to me.<\/p>\r\n<p>But I just saw someone use the word <i>xweex<\/i> in place of <i>tweet<\/i>, and <i>xwixxer<\/i> in place of <i>Twitter<\/i>, and I do like those.<\/p>\r\n<p>Especially when I pronounce each <i>x<\/i> as <i>ks<\/i>, so I\u2019m pronouncing them <i>ksweeks<\/i> and <i>kswikser<\/i>, which makes them fun to say as well as fun to see.<\/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":[109,58,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portmanteaus","category-new-to-me-words","category-pronunciation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18619","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=18619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18620,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18619\/revisions\/18620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}