{"id":9088,"date":"2015-01-18T12:02:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T12:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9088"},"modified":"2015-01-18T12:02:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T12:02:15","slug":"how-do-you-say-xiaomi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/01\/how-do-you-say-xiaomi\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you say Xiaomi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/blogs-magazine-monitor-30848303\">Over to the BBC Pronunciation Unit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;we recommend to our broadcasters:<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHOW mee<\/strong>?(-sh as in ship, -ow as in now, -ee as in street, note first syllable stress)<\/p>\n<p>This reflects the pronunciation used by the VP of Xiaomi Global, the Brazilian Hugo Barra,?<a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130912\/exclusive-hugo-barra-talks-about-his-future-at-xiaomi-and-why-he-left-google\/\">who said<\/a>?shortly after taking up his position in August 2013: &#8220;Think of &#8216;show me&#8217;, and then pronounce the first word as if it was &#8216;shower.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over to the BBC Pronunciation Unit: &#8230;we recommend to our broadcasters: SHOW mee?(-sh as in ship, -ow as in now, -ee as in street, note first syllable stress) This reflects the pronunciation used by the VP of Xiaomi Global, the Brazilian Hugo Barra,?who said?shortly after taking up his position in August 2013: &#8220;Think of &#8216;show me&#8217;, and then pronounce the first word as if it was &#8216;shower.&#8217;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-pocket-computers-and-phones","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2mA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9089,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions\/9089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}