{"id":439,"date":"2013-07-16T16:34:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=439"},"modified":"2013-07-16T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:34:43","slug":"mb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=439","title":{"rendered":"&lt;mb&gt;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In words which end in the sequence &lt;mb&gt; the &lt;b&gt; is always silent. \u00a0Examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>bomb climb comb crumb dumb jamb lamb limb numb plumb thumb tomb womb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The addition of a inflectional suffix to words like this makes no difference. The &lt;b&gt; is still silent. \u00a0Examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>climber combing dumber<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words &lt;mb&gt; represents the expected sound sequence <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">mb<\/span>. Examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>amber clamber crumble lumber mumble ramble samba symbol timber wombat<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice that <em>number <\/em>is ambiguous. It could mean &#8220;more numb&#8221;. Then the pronunciation would be <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8n\u028cm\u0259<\/span>. On the other hand it could mean, well, a number, in which case the pronunciation would of course be <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8n\u028cmb\u0259<\/span>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>2013_07_16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In words which end in the sequence &lt;mb&gt; the &lt;b&gt; is always silent. \u00a0Examples: bomb climb comb crumb dumb jamb lamb limb numb plumb thumb tomb womb The addition of a inflectional suffix to words like this makes no difference. The &lt;b&gt; is still silent. \u00a0Examples: climber combing dumber In other words &lt;mb&gt; represents the [&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\/439"}],"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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439\/revisions\/450"}],"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=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}