{"id":1647,"date":"2013-10-31T18:43:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T18:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1647"},"modified":"2013-11-03T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T12:28:05","slug":"less","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1647","title":{"rendered":"-less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word <em>less <\/em>is of course pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">les<\/span>, but it can also be a suffix. In this case it is unstressed and pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">l\u0259s<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">l\u026as<\/span>, the former being much more common than the latter these days. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>careless = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8ke\u0259l\u0259s<\/span><br \/>\nexpressionless = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u026ak\u02c8spre\u0283nl\u0259s<\/span><br \/>\nmotionless = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8m\u0259\u028a\u0283nl\u0259s<\/span><br \/>\npowerless = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8pa\u028a\u0259l\u0259s<\/span><br \/>\nvalueless = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8v\u00e6ljul\u0259s<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As you can see from the above, this suffix is stress-neutral. This means the position of the main stress is not affected when the suffix is added to a word.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>2013_10_31<br \/>\nUpdated 2013_11_03 With thanks to Alex Rotatori for a suggestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word less is of course pronounced les, but it can also be a suffix. In this case it is unstressed and pronounced l\u0259s or l\u026as, the former being much more common than the latter these days. Here are some examples: careless = \u02c8ke\u0259l\u0259s expressionless = \u026ak\u02c8spre\u0283nl\u0259s motionless = \u02c8m\u0259\u028a\u0283nl\u0259s powerless = \u02c8pa\u028a\u0259l\u0259s valueless = [&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\/1647"}],"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=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1647\/revisions\/1652"}],"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=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}