{"id":172,"date":"2013-07-04T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T11:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=172"},"modified":"2013-07-04T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T11:02:19","slug":"mouth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=172","title":{"rendered":"-mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of place-names ending in <em>-mouth<\/em>. If the part before this ending has more than one syllable, then you can pretty much guarantee that the pronunciation of the ending is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">ma\u028a\u03b8<\/span>. \u00a0Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Avonmouth = \u02c8<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">e\u026av\u0259nma\u028a\u03b8<\/span><br \/>\nCockermouth = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8k\u0252k\u0259ma\u028a\u03b8<\/span><br \/>\nOystermouth = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8\u0254\u026ast\u0259ma\u028a\u03b8<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If, however, there is only one syllable before the ending, then most of the time (but not always!) the pronunciation is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">m\u0259\u03b8<\/span>. Examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bournemouth Dartmouth Falmouth Portsmouth Sidmouth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For names in Scotland the <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">ma\u028a\u03b8<\/span>\u00a0pronunciation is used for all names, no matter how many syllables they have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of place-names ending in -mouth. If the part before this ending has more than one syllable, then you can pretty much guarantee that the pronunciation of the ending is ma\u028a\u03b8. \u00a0Here are some examples: Avonmouth = \u02c8e\u026av\u0259nma\u028a\u03b8 Cockermouth = \u02c8k\u0252k\u0259ma\u028a\u03b8 Oystermouth = \u02c8\u0254\u026ast\u0259ma\u028a\u03b8 If, however, there is only one syllable before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"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\/172"}],"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=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions\/179"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}