{"id":1388,"date":"2013-09-27T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1388"},"modified":"2013-09-27T15:28:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T15:28:27","slug":"ance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1388","title":{"rendered":"-ance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many words where the ending &lt;ance&gt; is unstressed and is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0259ns<\/span>. \u00a0Here is a list of examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>acceptance balance compliance deliverance distance importance instance nuisance performance resistance substance temperance tolerance vengeance<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the word has only a single syllable or if the final syllable is stressed, then the most common pronunciation of the ending is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0251\u02d0ns<\/span>, as in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>advance chance dance France enhance glance lance perchance prance stance trance<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, things are not always that simple, are they? Here are some words which fit in neither of the two lists above.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>askance <\/em>can be pronounced either <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0259\u02c8sk\u00e6ns<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0259\u02c8sk\u0251\u02d0ns<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>entrance <\/em>as a noun is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8entr\u0259ns<\/span>, but as a verb it is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u026an\u02c8tr\u0251\u02d0ns<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">en\u02c8tr\u0251\u02d0ns<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>finance <\/em>can be <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">f\u026a\u02c8n\u00e6ns<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">fa\u026a\u02c8n\u00e6ns<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8fa\u026an\u00e6ns<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>freelance <\/em>is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8fri\u02d0l\u0251\u02d0ns<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>happenstance <\/em>can be <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8h\u00e6p\u0259nst\u00e6ns<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8h\u00e6p\u0259nst\u0251\u02d0ns<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8h\u00e6p\u0259nst\u0259ns<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>nuance <\/em>is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8nju\u02d0\u0251\u02d0ns<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8nju\u02d0\u0252ns<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8nju\u02d0\u0251\u0303\u02d0s<\/span> (with a nasalised vowel)<\/li>\n<li><em>romance <\/em>is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8r\u0259\u028am\u00e6ns<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">r\u0259\u028a\u02c8m\u00e6ns<\/span><\/li>\n<li>s\u00e9ance is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8se\u026a\u0252ns<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8se\u026a\u0251\u02d0ns<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8se\u026a\u0251\u0303\u02d0s<\/span> (with a nasalised vowel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p>2013_09_27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many words where the ending &lt;ance&gt; is unstressed and is pronounced \u0259ns. \u00a0Here is a list of examples: acceptance balance compliance deliverance distance importance instance nuisance performance resistance substance temperance tolerance vengeance If the word has only a single syllable or if the final syllable is stressed, then the most common pronunciation of [&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\/1388"}],"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=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1388\/revisions\/1395"}],"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=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}