{"id":225,"date":"2013-07-06T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T12:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=225"},"modified":"2013-07-07T11:04:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T11:04:42","slug":"ui","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=225","title":{"rendered":"&lt;ui&gt;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The letter sequence &lt;ui&gt; is \u00a0pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">u\u02d0<\/span> in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>bruise cruise fruit juice nuisance sluice suit<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, in <em>nuisance<\/em> the sequence is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">ju\u02d0<\/span>, as it is in <em>suit<\/em> for some speakers.<\/p>\n<p>The pronunciation is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u026a<\/span> in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>build built biscuit circuit guild guilt<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>but notice that the adjective <em>circuitous <\/em>is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">s\u0259\u02c8kju\u02d0\u026at\u0259s<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>There is another group of exceptional words where &lt;ui&gt; is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">wi\u02d0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>puissance suite<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The most common pronunciation of the sequence is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">u\u02d0\u026a<\/span>, as in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>druid fluid ruin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note: <em>puissance<\/em> is a term from equestrianism.  Thanks to Philip Taylor for suggesting it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The letter sequence &lt;ui&gt; is \u00a0pronounced u\u02d0 in bruise cruise fruit juice nuisance sluice suit Actually, in nuisance the sequence is pronounced ju\u02d0, as it is in suit for some speakers. The pronunciation is \u026a in build built biscuit circuit guild guilt but notice that the adjective circuitous is pronounced s\u0259\u02c8kju\u02d0\u026at\u0259s. There is another group [&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\/225"}],"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=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions\/252"}],"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=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}