{"id":1137,"date":"2013-08-25T10:23:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T10:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1137"},"modified":"2013-08-25T10:33:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T10:33:31","slug":"silent-w","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1137","title":{"rendered":"Silent &lt;w&gt;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In words which begin with the sequence &lt;wr&gt; the <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">w<\/span> is silent. \u00a0Here are some words of this sort:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>wrack wrangle wraith wrap wrath wreak wren wrestle wretch wretched wright wring wrist write written wrong wrote wrought<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The addition of a prefix makes no difference, so, for example <em>unwritten <\/em>has a silent <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">w<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">w<\/span> is also silent in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>answer sword two<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of words beginning with &lt;wh&gt;, most of which have the pronunciation <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">w<\/span>, the following have a silent <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">w<\/span> and the sequence is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">h<\/span>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>who whole whom whore whose<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p>2103_08_25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In words which begin with the sequence &lt;wr&gt; the w is silent. \u00a0Here are some words of this sort: wrack wrangle wraith wrap wrath wreak wren wrestle wretch wretched wright wring wrist write written wrong wrote wrought The addition of a prefix makes no difference, so, for example unwritten has a silent w. The w [&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\/1137"}],"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=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1137\/revisions\/1145"}],"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=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}