{"id":316,"date":"2013-07-11T14:58:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T14:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=316"},"modified":"2013-07-17T20:53:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:53:40","slug":"wich","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=316","title":{"rendered":"-wich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England has quite a few names ending in &lt;wich&gt;. \u00a0For most of these the pronunciation is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u026at\u0283<\/span>, though you may hear native speakers who pronounce it <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u026ad\u0292<\/span> instead. \u00a0Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bromwich Dulwich Dunwich Greenwich (= <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8\u0261ren\u026at\u0283<\/span>) Harwich Norwich Woolwich<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can only think of three names which do not follow this pattern. These are Ipswich, Nantwich and Sandwich. In these names the ending is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">w\u026at\u0283<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">w\u026ad\u0292<\/span>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Petr R\u00f6sel adds Colwich, Prestwich, Northwich, Middlewich and Droitwich as place-names where &lt;wich&gt; is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">w\u026at\u0283<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">w\u026ad\u0292<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England has quite a few names ending in &lt;wich&gt;. \u00a0For most of these the pronunciation is \u026at\u0283, though you may hear native speakers who pronounce it \u026ad\u0292 instead. \u00a0Here are some examples: Bromwich Dulwich Dunwich Greenwich (= \u02c8\u0261ren\u026at\u0283) Harwich Norwich Woolwich I can only think of three names which do not follow this pattern. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"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\/316"}],"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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions\/328"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}