{"id":1485,"date":"2013-10-06T12:18:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T12:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1485"},"modified":"2013-10-06T12:18:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T12:18:53","slug":"eigh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1485","title":{"rendered":"&lt;eigh&gt;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In most words the sequence &lt;eigh&gt; is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">e\u026a<\/span>. \u00a0Here are examples of this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>eight freight heigh-ho inveigh Leighton neigh neighbour sleigh Speight weigh weight weighty<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As you would expect, derivatives of these words like <em>eighty <\/em>and <em>neighbourhood <\/em>have the same vowel.<\/p>\n<p>Exceptions:<br \/>\nThe word <em>height <\/em>is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">ha\u026at<\/span> and <em>sleight <\/em>is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">sla\u026at<\/span>.<br \/>\nThe name <em>Leigh <\/em>is usually <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">li<\/span>:, but there are some place-names where the pronunciation is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">la\u026a<\/span>. \u00a0The sequence &lt;leigh&gt; as an unstressed name ending is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">li<\/span>, as in the name <em>Raleigh<\/em> and the place-name <em>Chudleigh<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>2013_10_06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In most words the sequence &lt;eigh&gt; is pronounced e\u026a. \u00a0Here are examples of this: eight freight heigh-ho inveigh Leighton neigh neighbour sleigh Speight weigh weight weighty As you would expect, derivatives of these words like eighty and neighbourhood have the same vowel. Exceptions: The word height is ha\u026at and sleight is sla\u026at. The name Leigh [&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\/1485"}],"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=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1485\/revisions\/1489"}],"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=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}