{"id":1181,"date":"2013-09-02T11:53:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T11:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1181"},"modified":"2013-09-02T11:53:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T11:53:57","slug":"wards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1181","title":{"rendered":"-ward(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most words that end in &lt;ward&gt; or &lt;wards&gt; the pronunciation is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">w\u0259d(z)<\/span>. Examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>backward(s) forward(s) inward(s) onward(s)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, the words <em>toward <\/em>and <em>towards <\/em>are stressed on the final syllable and are pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">t\u0259\u02c8w\u0254\u02d0d<\/span> and <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">t\u0259\u02c8w\u0254\u02d0dz<\/span>. \u00a0 Sometimes you will hear them pronounced without the <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0259<\/span>, so <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">tw\u0254\u02d0d<\/span> and <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">tw\u0254\u02d0dz<\/span> and even without the <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">w<\/span> &#8212; <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">t\u0254\u02d0d<\/span> and <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">t\u0254\u02d0dz<\/span>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>2013_09_02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most words that end in &lt;ward&gt; or &lt;wards&gt; the pronunciation is w\u0259d(z). Examples: backward(s) forward(s) inward(s) onward(s) However, the words toward and towards are stressed on the final syllable and are pronounced t\u0259\u02c8w\u0254\u02d0d and t\u0259\u02c8w\u0254\u02d0dz. \u00a0 Sometimes you will hear them pronounced without the \u0259, so tw\u0254\u02d0d and tw\u0254\u02d0dz and even without the w [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":182,"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\/1181"}],"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=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1181\/revisions\/1183"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}