{"id":486,"date":"2013-07-18T12:39:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T12:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=486"},"modified":"2013-07-18T12:39:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T12:39:37","slug":"because","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=486","title":{"rendered":"Because"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This word has so many alternative pronunciations that about the only thing that can be guaranteed is that it will contain a <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">k<\/span>. The first vowel can be any of \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">i\u02d0 \u026a \u0259<\/span>. The second vowel can be any of <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0252 \u0254\u02d0 \u028c \u0259<\/span>. The final consonant can be <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">s<\/span>\u00a0or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">z<\/span>. The first syllable can disappear altogether. Some speakers use a pronunciation which contains <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0259\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0in the second syllable even though it is stressed. \u00a0In very relaxed speech (especially if the next word begins with a vowel) all the vowels in the word may disappear and we are left with <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">kz<\/span>\u00a0or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">ks<\/span>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>2013_07_18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This word has so many alternative pronunciations that about the only thing that can be guaranteed is that it will contain a k. The first vowel can be any of \u00a0i\u02d0 \u026a \u0259. The second vowel can be any of \u0252 \u0254\u02d0 \u028c \u0259. The final consonant can be s\u00a0or z. The first syllable can [&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\/486"}],"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=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486\/revisions\/491"}],"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=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}