{"id":406,"date":"2009-07-06T22:59:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T03:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegobutton.net\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2010-01-01T23:23:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T04:23:49","slug":"passarelle-public-service-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/passarelle-public-service-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Passarelle – Public Service Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s how it’s spelled. Passarelle.
\nTwo S’s, two L’s, one R.
\nI have made a career of spelling it differently every single time I have to use the word, and even though I’m normally someone who insists on accuracy about things like that, I just stopped giving a damn and decided to throw an arbitrary number of double consonants at the word every time I type it.<\/p>\n

Well I just ran across it in a theatrical glossary, and I’m going with that. If you’re interested, a passarelle is a ramp (which is the word most people use when they can’t spell passarelle) which extends from the stage around the orchestra pit.<\/p>\n

I’ll use it in a sentence: “Hello, Dolly!<\/em> at the Reagle Players, 2009, is the first production I’ve ever heard of that used a passarelle<\/strong> and didn’t have someone fall in the pit.”<\/p>\n

Eventually I will muster up the enthusiasm to care whether or not there are two L’s in “travellator” (or “travelator,” if you will). I don’t believe there’s any consensus at Phantom, either. In fact, I’m sure I myself have used both spellings in performance reports. A Google search reveals that both seem to be used interchangeably, with the two-L version having more results, and most of them seeming to refer to one of those long treadmill-type things they have at airports, as opposed to an adjustable bridge suspended between two towers which can traverse upstage and downstage. So I guess I will continue to pick a spelling based on my mood of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s how it’s spelled. Passarelle. Two S’s, two L’s, one R. I have made a career of spelling it differently every single time I have to use the word, and even though I’m normally someone who insists on accuracy about things like that, I just stopped giving a damn and decided to throw an arbitrary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[20,88,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}