{"id":258,"date":"2013-07-07T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T11:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=258"},"modified":"2013-07-16T09:36:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T09:36:08","slug":"ic-and-ical","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=258","title":{"rendered":"-ic and -ical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The suffixes &lt;ic&gt; and &lt;ical&gt; affect the stress pattern of the words to which they are attached. \u00a0If necessary, the main stress is attracted to the syllable immediately before the suffix. \u00a0Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>magnet = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8m\u00e6\u0261n\u0259t<\/span><br \/>\nma\u0261netic = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">m\u0259\u0261\u02c8net\u026ak<\/span><\/p>\n<p>moron = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8m\u0254\u02d0r\u0252n<\/span><br \/>\nmoronic = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">m\u0259\u02c8r\u0252n\u026ak<\/span><\/p>\n<p>photograph = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8f\u0259\u028at\u0259\u0261r\u0251\u02d0f<\/span><br \/>\nphotographic = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02ccf\u0259\u028at\u0259\u02c8\u0261r\u00e6f\u026ak<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>cylinder = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8s\u026al\u026and\u0259<\/span><br \/>\ncylindrical =<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> s\u026a\u02c8l\u026andr\u026akl<\/span><\/p>\n<p>psychology =<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> sa\u026a\u02c8k\u0252l\u0259d\u0292i<\/span><br \/>\npsychological = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02ccsa\u026ak\u0259\u02c8l\u0252d\u0292\u026akl<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice the vowel quality changes in most of the words the words above.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>DWhitecloud comments that there are some nouns ending in &lt;ic&gt; that do not follow this pattern: <em>arithmetic<\/em>, <em>lunatic <\/em>(noun or adjective), <em>heretic<\/em>, for instance, all have stress two syllables before the suffix.  It has just occurred to me that <em>politic<\/em> is also an exception of this sort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suffixes &lt;ic&gt; and &lt;ical&gt; affect the stress pattern of the words to which they are attached. \u00a0If necessary, the main stress is attracted to the syllable immediately before the suffix. \u00a0Here are some examples: magnet = \u02c8m\u00e6\u0261n\u0259t ma\u0261netic = m\u0259\u0261\u02c8net\u026ak moron = \u02c8m\u0254\u02d0r\u0252n moronic = m\u0259\u02c8r\u0252n\u026ak photograph = \u02c8f\u0259\u028at\u0259\u0261r\u0251\u02d0f photographic = \u02ccf\u0259\u028at\u0259\u02c8\u0261r\u00e6f\u026ak cylinder = [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":256,"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\/258"}],"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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258\/revisions\/415"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}