{"id":1081,"date":"2013-08-21T16:30:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T16:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1081"},"modified":"2013-08-22T11:17:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T11:17:08","slug":"au","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1081","title":{"rendered":"&lt;au&gt;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most frequent pronunciation of the sequence is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0254\u02d0<\/span>. \u00a0Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>applause August auk author cause daunt exhaust flaunt haul launch maul paunch pause saunter taut taunt<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However there are some words where the pronunciation is either <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0252<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0254\u02d0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Austin Australia Austria auxiliary<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The word <em>auction <\/em>is more usual with <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0254\u02d0<\/span>, but some speakers have <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0252<\/span>.<br \/>\nIn words or phrases borrowed from French the pronunciation is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0259\u028a<\/span>, as in\u02d0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>au contraire au fait au pair au revoir caf\u00e9 au lait chauvinist<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The words <em>mauve<\/em> and <em>taupe<\/em> also have <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0259\u028a<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Aunt <\/em> is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0251\u02d0nt<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gauge <\/em>is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0261e\u026ad\u0292<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The sequence &lt;augh&gt; is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0254\u02d0<\/span> in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>aught caught daughter fraught haughty naught naughty slaughter taught<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>but is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0251\u02d0f<\/span> in <em>draught<\/em>, <em>laugh<\/em> and <em>laughter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>How could I have forgotten <em>sausage <\/em>= <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8s\u0252s\u026ad\u0292<\/span> and <em>sauerkraut <\/em>= <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8sa\u028a\u0259kra\u028at<\/span>? Thanks to Petr R\u00f6sel for reminding me. It has also occurred to me that <em>trauma <\/em>is sometimes pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8tra\u028am\u0259<\/span> instead of <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8tr\u0254\u02d0m\u0259<\/span>.<br \/>\n2013_08_21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most frequent pronunciation of the sequence is \u0254\u02d0. \u00a0Here are some examples: applause August auk author cause daunt exhaust flaunt haul launch maul paunch pause saunter taut taunt However there are some words where the pronunciation is either \u0252 or \u0254\u02d0 Austin Australia Austria auxiliary The word auction is more usual with \u0254\u02d0, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1081"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1081\/revisions\/1087"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}