{"id":416,"date":"2013-07-16T11:31:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T11:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=416"},"modified":"2013-07-16T14:09:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T14:09:54","slug":"et","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=416","title":{"rendered":"-et"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word ending &lt;et&gt; is most commonly pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u026at<\/span> or<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u0259t<\/span>, as in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>bullet gadget hatchet mallet target wallet<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However there are few words, borrowed from French, where the &lt;t&gt; is silent and the vowel is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">e\u026a<\/span>. Examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ballet = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8b\u00e6le\u026a<\/span><br \/>\nbouquet = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">bu\u02d0\u02c8ke\u026a<\/span> or<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u02c8bu\u02d0ke\u026a<\/span><br \/>\nbuffet = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8b\u028cfe\u026a<\/span><br \/>\ncachet =<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u02c8k\u00e6\u0283e\u026a<\/span><br \/>\nchalet = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8\u0283\u00e6le\u026a<\/span><br \/>\ncrochet =<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u02c8kr\u0259\u028a\u0283e\u026a<\/span><br \/>\ncroquet = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8kr\u0259\u028ake\u026a<\/span> or<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u02c8kr\u0259\u028aki<\/span><br \/>\nricochet = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8r\u026ak\u0259\u0283e\u026a<\/span><br \/>\nsachet =<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u02c8s\u00e6\u0283e\u026a<\/span><br \/>\nsorbet = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8s\u0254\u02d0be\u026a<\/span><br \/>\nvalet =<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u02c8v\u00e6le\u026a<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8v\u00e6l\u026at<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice the pronunciation of &lt;ch&gt; as <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0283<\/span> in some the above words. Also <em>buffet<\/em>\u00a0is a verb meaning &#8220;to beat, strike&#8221;, in which case it is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8b\u028cf\u026at<\/span>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>2013_07_16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word ending &lt;et&gt; is most commonly pronounced \u026at or \u0259t, as in bullet gadget hatchet mallet target wallet However there are few words, borrowed from French, where the &lt;t&gt; is silent and the vowel is pronounced e\u026a. Examples: ballet = \u02c8b\u00e6le\u026a bouquet = bu\u02d0\u02c8ke\u026a or \u02c8bu\u02d0ke\u026a buffet = \u02c8b\u028cfe\u026a cachet = \u02c8k\u00e6\u0283e\u026a chalet = [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":182,"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\/416"}],"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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416\/revisions\/430"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}