{"id":12395,"date":"2006-08-22T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/22\/politically-incorrect-alphabet\/"},"modified":"2006-08-22T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T23:21:00","slug":"politically-incorrect-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/22\/politically-incorrect-alphabet\/","title":{"rendered":"Politically Incorrect Alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Jones&rsquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/better-together.co.uk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Politically Incorrect Alphabet<\/a> is fun&hellip;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My wife is a teacher of young children, and I&rsquo;ve spent a fair time of late sitting on undersized chairs admiring the alphabet charts on classroom walls. Typically &lsquo;A&rsquo; will stand for Apple, &#8216;B&rsquo; for Ball. It occurred to me that &#8216;I&rsquo; for Indian, one I remember from my childhood, has been replaced as it is no longer politically correct to refer to native\/first\/indigenous Americans as Indians. <\/p>\n<p>Lacking any tact or decency, I therefore determined to create an alphabet using only subjects that, while they might have been unremarked a few decades ago, are now outside acceptable usage. But only just.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/language\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">language<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/art\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">art<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/culture\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">culture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/humor\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">humor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/images\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">images<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-115628233296686034?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Jones&rsquo; Politically Incorrect Alphabet is fun&hellip; My wife is a teacher of young children, and I&rsquo;ve spent a fair time of late sitting on undersized chairs admiring the alphabet charts on classroom walls. Typically &lsquo;A&rsquo; will stand for Apple, &#8216;B&rsquo; for Ball. It occurred to me that &#8216;I&rsquo; for Indian, one I remember from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/22\/politically-incorrect-alphabet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Politically Incorrect Alphabet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}