{"id":274,"date":"2013-07-08T13:23:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T13:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=274"},"modified":"2013-08-15T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T11:39:00","slug":"affricate-sequences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=274","title":{"rendered":"Affricate sequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General British English has two affricates: <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">t\u0283<\/span> as in <em>church<\/em> and <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">d\u0292<\/span> as in <em>judge<\/em>. \u00a0It is quite a common non-native speaker error to reduce the first of a sequence of two affricates to a plosive. \u00a0The phrase <em>which cheese<\/em>\u00a0is pronounced\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">w\u026at\u0283 t\u0283i\u02d0z<\/span> NOT <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">w\u026at t\u0283i\u02d0z<\/span> and<em> orange juice<\/em> must be <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0252r\u026and\u0292 d\u0292u\u02d0s<\/span> NOT <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0252r\u026and d\u0292u\u02d0s<\/span>.<br \/>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-274-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/affseq.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/affseq.mp3\">http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/affseq.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/affseq.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Alternative sound<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General British English has two affricates: t\u0283 as in church and d\u0292 as in judge. \u00a0It is quite a common non-native speaker error to reduce the first of a sequence of two affricates to a plosive. \u00a0The phrase which cheese\u00a0is pronounced\u00a0w\u026at\u0283 t\u0283i\u02d0z NOT w\u026at t\u0283i\u02d0z and orange juice must be \u0252r\u026and\u0292 d\u0292u\u02d0s NOT \u0252r\u026and d\u0292u\u02d0s. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":100,"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\/274"}],"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=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/274\/revisions\/984"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}