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Ichor<\/a> is pronounced with a long <\/em>I?  I’ll be damned, apparently<\/a> so<\/a>.  I always thought it was pronounced with a short <\/em>I, like, well, “icky.”  It’s not a word I use in everyday language, but I’m sure I’ve said it that way at various D&D games and nobody’s ever corrected me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ichor is pronounced with a long I?  I’ll be damned, apparently so.  I always thought it was pronounced with a short I, like, well, “icky.”  It’s not a word I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51737,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/why-is-quinoa-pronounced-like-it-is.html","url_meta":{"origin":11680,"position":0},"title":"Why is "quinoa" pronounced like it is?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-Jul-15 11:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Which, properly, is \"KEEN-wah\" (or \"keen-WAH\"). 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