{"id":5767,"date":"2010-01-26T15:51:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T14:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=5767"},"modified":"2012-10-16T15:48:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T14:48:45","slug":"lidl-or-lidl-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=5767","title":{"rendered":"Lidl or Lidl?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style=margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt><span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt>Just how <em>do <\/em>you pronounce the name of our local German-owned store? The postbox of the <em>Bohemia Village Voice <\/em>is crammed each morning with hundreds of enquiries from residents on just this point. Opinion varies widely, some saying &lsquo;Lee-dle&rsquo; to rhyme with &lsquo;needle&rsquo;, others opting for &lsquo;Lid-dle&rsquo; rhyming with &lsquo;middle&rsquo; or &lsquo;fiddle&rsquo;. Still others prefer &lsquo;Lie-dle&rsquo;, with the first syllable rhyming with &lsquo;my&rsquo; or &lsquo;sigh&rsquo;, or even &lsquo;Li-<u>dell<\/u>&rsquo; with the stress on the second syllable. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt><span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt>To solve the mystery once and for all, <em>Bohemia <span style=color: black>Village Voice <\/span><\/em><span style=color: black>consulted a real live German, living in Wiesbaden, for a ruling. She writes: &ldquo;There are some regional differences but&nbsp;generally&nbsp;<u>Lee-dle<\/u> to rhyme with needle is used.&rdquo;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt><span lang=EN-GB style=font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt>So now we know.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just how do you pronounce the name of our local German-owned store? The postbox of the Bohemia Village Voice is crammed each morning with hundreds of enquiries from residents on just this point. Opinion varies widely, some saying&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=5767\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[193,24,48],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17785,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions\/17785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}