{"id":1624,"date":"2013-10-26T17:08:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T17:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1624"},"modified":"2013-10-26T17:08:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T17:08:43","slug":"%c9%99-elision-in-the-first-syllable","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1624","title":{"rendered":"\u0259 elision in the first syllable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays you can hear a lot of speakers who regularly elide <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0259<\/span> in the first syllable of a word if the next consonant is<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> r<\/span> or<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> l<\/span>. This takes place in casual speech and results in pronunciations like those in the examples below<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>balloon = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">blu\u02d0n<\/span><br \/>\ncollapse = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">kl\u00e6ps<\/span><br \/>\nteriffic = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">tr\u026af\u026ak<\/span><br \/>\nvariety = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">vra\u026a\u0259ti<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t advise you to imitate this unless you really know what you&#8217;re doing, but you should be aware that it happens because some of the results can be misleading. For instance, <em>collapse <\/em>can become identical to <em>claps<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>One word which very very many people apply this to is <em>police<\/em>, resulting in <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">pli\u02d0s<\/span>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>2013_10_26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays you can hear a lot of speakers who regularly elide \u0259 in the first syllable of a word if the next consonant is r or l. This takes place in casual speech and results in pronunciations like those in the examples below balloon = blu\u02d0n collapse = kl\u00e6ps teriffic = tr\u026af\u026ak variety = vra\u026a\u0259ti [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":118,"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\/1624"}],"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=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1624\/revisions\/1626"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}