{"id":1137,"date":"2004-10-02T09:20:01","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T17:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/02\/uses-of-used\/"},"modified":"2004-10-02T09:20:01","modified_gmt":"2004-10-02T17:20:01","slug":"uses-of-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"Uses of used"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the sentence “it’s a used car,” I pronounce “used” yoozed<\/i>.<\/p>\n

But in the sentence “I’m used to the cold,” I pronounce it yoost<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I’ve never before noticed that the pronunciation varies according to which definition of the word I’m using. Are there any other English words like that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the sentence “it’s a used car,” I pronounce “used” yoozed. But in the sentence “I’m used to the cold,” I pronounce it yoost. I’ve never before noticed that the pronunciation varies according to which definition of the word I’m … Continue reading →<\/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":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}