{"id":2025,"date":"2014-04-23T15:24:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T15:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=2025"},"modified":"2014-04-25T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T10:23:00","slug":"se-episode-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=2025","title":{"rendered":"&lt;-se&gt; Episode 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some words where the ending is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">a\u028az<\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(a)rouse blouse carouse espouse<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here are some where the ending is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">a\u028as<\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>douse grouse louse mouse souse spouse<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, the word <em>grouse <\/em>can also be pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0261ru\u02d0s<\/span>, but I have never heard this and don&#8217;t recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>The word <em>burnoose<\/em>\/<em>burnous(e)<\/em> is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">b\u025c\u02d0\u02c8nu\u02d0s<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">b\u025c\u02d0\u02c8nu\u02d0z<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The word <em>Ouse<\/em>, the name of several rivers in England, is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">u\u02d0z<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Alex Rotatori for pointing out that <em>spouse <\/em>can also be pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">spa\u028az<\/span>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>2014_04_23<br \/>\nUpdated 2014_04_25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some words where the ending is pronounced a\u028az: (a)rouse blouse carouse espouse And here are some where the ending is pronounced a\u028as: douse grouse louse mouse souse spouse Apparently, the word grouse can also be pronounced \u0261ru\u02d0s, but I have never heard this and don&#8217;t recommend it. The word burnoose\/burnous(e) is pronounced b\u025c\u02d0\u02c8nu\u02d0s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"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\/2025"}],"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=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2025\/revisions\/2030"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}