{"id":11884,"date":"2020-06-28T05:41:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T10:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11884"},"modified":"2020-06-29T06:18:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T11:18:27","slug":"how-a-local-says-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/28\/how-a-local-says-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Local Says It?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the best ways to become aware of alternate spellings of places is to know how a local would say the place name.  There is a San Jose in Illinois and California and they are not pronounced in the same way.  Any location named after a member of the Taliaferro family  is more likely to rhyme with &#8220;fur&#8221; that with &#8220;arrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we won&#8217;t even get started with how Keokuk, Iowa, is pronounced by locals and non-locals alike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you don&#8217;t know how they probably said it, you don&#8217;t know all the potential ways it could have been spelled. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best ways to become aware of alternate spellings of places is to know how a local would say the place name. There is a San Jose in Illinois and California and they are not pronounced in the same way. Any location named after a member of the Taliaferro family is more likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}