{"id":1655,"date":"2013-11-05T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1655"},"modified":"2013-11-06T16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T16:05:12","slug":"ious","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1655","title":{"rendered":"-ious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word ending &lt;ious&gt; is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">i\u0259s<\/span> in many words. \u00a0Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>acrimonious amphibious copious curious delirious devious dubious envious fastidious furious glorious harmonious hilarious insidious previous sanctimonious supercilious<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, in quite a few words the ending is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0259s<\/span> rather than <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">i\u0259s<\/span>. This is true of all the words below.<\/p>\n<p>If the preceding letter is &lt;t&gt;, this is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0283<\/span>. Again some examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ambitious cautious conscientious contentious fictitious flirtatious ostentatious pretentious propitious vexatious<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A preceding &lt;c&gt; or &lt;sc&gt; is also pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0283<\/span>, as in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>atrocious capacious conscious delicious ferocious gracious luscious malicious precious precocious spacious tenacious<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are a few words where the preceding letter is &lt;g&gt;. \u00a0This is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">d\u0292<\/span>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>contagious prestigious religious<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>anxious = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8\u00e6\u014bk\u0283\u0259s<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8\u00e6\u014b\u0283\u0259s<\/span><br \/>\nnoxious = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8n\u0252k\u0283\u0259s<\/span><br \/>\nobnoxious = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0259b\u02c8n\u0252k\u0283\u0259s<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0252b\u02c8n\u0252k\u0283\u0259s<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice that the main stress of the word falls on the syllable immediately before the ending in all the examples on this page.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>2013_11_05<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word ending &lt;ious&gt; is pronounced i\u0259s in many words. \u00a0Here are some examples: acrimonious amphibious copious curious delirious devious dubious envious fastidious furious glorious harmonious hilarious insidious previous sanctimonious supercilious However, in quite a few words the ending is \u0259s rather than i\u0259s. This is true of all the words below. If the preceding [&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\/1655"}],"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=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1655\/revisions\/1664"}],"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=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}