{"id":128325,"date":"2015-10-15T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T03:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/how-mcdonalds-changed-the-english-language.html"},"modified":"2015-11-05T11:07:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T18:07:17","slug":"how-mcdonalds-changed-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/how-mcdonalds-changed-the-english-language.html","title":{"rendered":"How McDonald&#039;s changed the English language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/logophilius.blogspot.com\/2015\/10\/how-mcdonalds-marketing-made-us-grimace.html\">http:\/\/logophilius.blogspot.com\/2015\/10\/how-mcdonalds-marketing-made-us-grimace.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; until the early\/mid-1970s, &quot;grimace&quot; was pronounced &quot;grih-MAYS&quot; (rhymes with &quot;face&quot;). But when McDonald&#39;s introduced &quot;The Evil Grimace&quot; to their McDonaldLand commercials, they chose to pronounce it &quot;GRIM-miss&quot; &#8212; which pronunciation stuck (probably given the fact that it&#39;s not a word that&#39;s spoken aloud very often).<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/mcdonalds.wikia.com\/wiki\/Grimace\">http:\/\/mcdonalds.wikia.com\/wiki\/Grimace<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, it was the <i>&quot;Evil<\/i> Grimace&quot; originally (for drink-stealing values of evil), and he had an extra set of arms. Just like the Hamburglar was scarier looking when first introduced, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/97YXbNaAyzA' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/ePSJehnYaYu'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article &#8230; http:\/\/logophilius.blogspot.com\/2015\/10\/how-mcdonalds-marketing-made-us-grimace.html &#8230; until the early\/mid-1970s, &quot;grimace&quot; was pronounced &quot;grih-MAYS&quot; (rhymes with &quot;face&quot;). But when McDonald&#39;s introduced &quot;The Evil Grimace&quot; to their McDonaldLand commercials, they chose to pronounce it &quot;GRIM-miss&quot; &#8212; which pronunciation stuck (probably given the fact that it&#39;s not a word that&#39;s spoken aloud very often). [http:\/\/mcdonalds.wikia.com\/wiki\/Grimace] And, yes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/how-mcdonalds-changed-the-english-language.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How McDonald&#039;s changed the English language&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,80,72,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-commercial","category-food-drink-restaurants","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5896,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/01\/designs_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":128325,"position":0},"title":"Designs","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-Jul-04 3:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't necessarily agree with the causes or the sentiments, but the winning t-shirts in the Designs on the White House contest are, indeed, clever and attractive. 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