{"id":2181,"date":"2014-08-31T14:20:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T14:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=2181"},"modified":"2014-08-31T14:20:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T14:20:35","slug":"our-%c9%9c%cb%90","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=2181","title":{"rendered":"&lt;our&gt; = \u025c\u02d0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The letter sequence &lt;our&gt; is normally pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u025c\u02d0<\/span> in GB in the words <em>courteous<\/em>, <em>courtesy<\/em> and their derivatives and in the word <em>scourge<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There are also number of words containing the sequence &lt;jour&gt; where the GB vowel sound is normally <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u025c\u02d0<\/span>. \u00a0Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>adjourn journal journalese journalism journalise journalist journalistic journey journeyman journo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are some words where <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u025c\u02d0<\/span> is one of a number of possible pronunciations:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sojourn tourmaline tournament tournedos tourney tourniquet<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The word <em>bourbon<\/em> is pronounced with <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u025c\u02d0<\/span> if it is the name of an alcoholic drink and <em>bourgeois<\/em> has <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u025c\u02d0<\/span> if it the name of a typeface.<\/p>\n<p>This tip was prompted by a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/matters-phonetic.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Petr R\u00f6sel&#8217;s blog<\/a>, so thanks to him and to Barry Cusack.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>2014_08_31<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The letter sequence &lt;our&gt; is normally pronounced \u025c\u02d0 in GB in the words courteous, courtesy and their derivatives and in the word scourge. There are also number of words containing the sequence &lt;jour&gt; where the GB vowel sound is normally \u025c\u02d0. \u00a0Here are some examples: adjourn journal journalese journalism journalise journalist journalistic journey journeyman journo [&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\/2181"}],"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=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2181\/revisions\/2188"}],"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=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}