{"id":1217,"date":"2013-09-09T12:05:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T12:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1217"},"modified":"2013-09-09T12:23:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T12:23:51","slug":"s-%ca%92","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1217","title":{"rendered":"&lt;s&gt; = \u0292"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The single letter &lt;s&gt; can sometimes represent the sound <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0292<\/span>. Here are some examples of this.<\/p>\n<p>When preceded by a vowel and followed by the ending &lt;ure&gt;, as in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>closure leisure measure pleasure treasure<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If a consonant precedes the &lt;s&gt; then the pronunciation is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0283<\/span>, as in <em>censure<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the word endings &#8211;<em>asion<\/em>, &#8211;<em>esion<\/em>, &#8211;<em>ision<\/em>, &#8211;<em>osion<\/em>, &#8211;<em>usion<\/em>, as in <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>invasion lesion decision erosion inclusion<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For some speakers, in the words <em>Asia <\/em>and <em>Asian <\/em>(and compounds such as <em>Australasian<\/em>). Other speakers have <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0283<\/span> \u00a0in these words.<\/p>\n<p>In <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>casual usual usually visual<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again we have <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0283<\/span> \u00a0if a consonant precedes, as in <em>sensual<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>2013_09_09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The single letter &lt;s&gt; can sometimes represent the sound \u0292. Here are some examples of this. When preceded by a vowel and followed by the ending &lt;ure&gt;, as in closure leisure measure pleasure treasure If a consonant precedes the &lt;s&gt; then the pronunciation is \u0283, as in censure. In the word endings &#8211;asion, &#8211;esion, &#8211;ision, [&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\/1217"}],"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=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1217\/revisions\/1228"}],"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=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}