{"id":1476,"date":"2013-10-04T14:15:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T14:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1476"},"modified":"2013-10-08T13:48:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T13:48:12","slug":"ai","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1476","title":{"rendered":"&lt;ai&gt;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most frequent pronunciation of the letter sequence &lt;ai&gt; is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">e\u026a<\/span>, as in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>aim drain laid maize obtain paid rail sailor straight train wait<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However there are a few words which do not have this pronunciation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>said <\/em>is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">sed<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>again <\/em>and <em>against <\/em>have <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">e<\/span> for some speakers and <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">e\u026a<\/span> for others<\/li>\n<li><em>plaid <\/em>is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">pl\u00e6d<\/span> and <em>plait <\/em>is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">pl\u00e6t<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>aisle <\/em>is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">a\u026al<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When the sequence is followed by &lt;r&gt;, the pronunciation is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">e\u0259<\/span>, as in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>air chair fair pair stairs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The unstressed ending &lt;ain&gt; is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0259n<\/span> (or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u026an<\/span> for some speakers), as in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>bargain captain curtain fountain mountain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p>2013_10_04<br \/>\nUpdated 2013_10_08<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most frequent pronunciation of the letter sequence &lt;ai&gt; is e\u026a, as in aim drain laid maize obtain paid rail sailor straight train wait However there are a few words which do not have this pronunciation: said is sed again and against have e for some speakers and e\u026a for others plaid is pl\u00e6d and [&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\/1476"}],"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=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1476\/revisions\/1520"}],"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=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}