{"id":1878,"date":"2014-01-07T12:46:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T12:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1878"},"modified":"2014-01-07T13:04:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T13:04:31","slug":"ite-%c9%aat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=1878","title":{"rendered":"-ite = \u026at"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most words that end in &lt;ite&gt; the pronunciation is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">a\u026at<\/span>. \u00a0However, here are some words for which the pronunciation is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u026at<\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>apposite exquisite favourite granite hypocrite opposite preterite requisite<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The word <em>respite <\/em>can be be pronounced either as <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8resp\u026at<\/span> or as\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8respa\u026at<\/span>. The second of these is probably more common these days.<\/p>\n<p>The word <em>composite <\/em>is generally pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8k\u0252mp\u0259z\u026at<\/span> (or sometimes <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">k\u0259m\u02c8p\u0252z\u026at<\/span>). However, with the specific meaning of &#8220;A composite resolution put before a Trades Union Congress, which has been compiled from several related resolutions proposed by trade unions or constituency Labour parties&#8221; (OED) the pronunciation is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02cck\u0252mp\u0259\u02c8za\u026at<\/span>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>2014_01_07<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most words that end in &lt;ite&gt; the pronunciation is a\u026at. \u00a0However, here are some words for which the pronunciation is \u026at: apposite exquisite favourite granite hypocrite opposite preterite requisite The word respite can be be pronounced either as \u02c8resp\u026at or as\u00a0\u02c8respa\u026at. The second of these is probably more common these days. The word composite [&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\/1878"}],"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=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1878\/revisions\/1885"}],"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=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}