{"id":232,"date":"2013-07-06T15:59:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T15:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=232"},"modified":"2013-10-03T10:43:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T10:43:59","slug":"232-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=232","title":{"rendered":"&lt;ss&gt;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spelling &lt;ss&gt; in the middle of a word represents the sound <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">s<\/span> most of the time, except when followed by &lt;ion&gt; or &lt;ure&gt; as in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>fissure impression mission passion pressure session succession<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here the pronunciation is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0283<\/span>. The same pronunciation is used for the words <em>Prussia <\/em>and <em>Russia<\/em>. The words <em>scission <\/em>and <em>rescission<\/em> may have either<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u0283<\/span> or<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u0292<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The words <em>issue<\/em> and <em>tissue<\/em> can be pronounced with<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u0283<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">sj<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few words where surprisingly &lt;ss&gt; represents <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">z<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Aussie dessert dissolve hussar po<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ss<\/span>ess po<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ss<\/span>ession scissors<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the end of a word &lt;ss&gt; always stands for <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">s<\/span>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>With thanks to Petr R\u00f6sel for comments<br \/>\nUpdated 2013_10_03<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spelling &lt;ss&gt; in the middle of a word represents the sound s most of the time, except when followed by &lt;ion&gt; or &lt;ure&gt; as in: fissure impression mission passion pressure session succession Here the pronunciation is \u0283. The same pronunciation is used for the words Prussia and Russia. The words scission and rescission may [&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\/232"}],"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=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232\/revisions\/1446"}],"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=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}