{"id":558,"date":"2013-07-21T11:57:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T11:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=558"},"modified":"2013-07-21T17:08:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T17:08:33","slug":"regular-noun-plurals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=558","title":{"rendered":"Regular noun plurals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to pronounce the plural forms of nouns which follow the usual pattern of adding &lt;(e)s&gt;. Here is a recipe. It doesn&#8217;t work for <em>all <\/em>nouns, but it does work for an awful lot of them.<\/p>\n<p>First we divide English sounds into three groups. \u00a0The first is called V+.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>V+ \u00a0= all vowels and <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">b d \u0261 v \u00f0 m n \u014b l<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The second is called V-.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>V- = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">p t k f \u03b8<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the third is called SIBILANT.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SIBILANT = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">s z \u0283 \u0292 t\u0283 d\u0292<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>STEP 1: Add<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> z<\/span> to the end of the word<br \/>\nSTEP 2: If the word now ends in SIBILANT+<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">z<\/span>, insert<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u0259<\/span> or<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u026a<\/span> before the <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">z<\/span><br \/>\nSTEP 3: If the word ends in V- + <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">z<\/span>, change <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">z<\/span> \u2192<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> s<\/span><br \/>\nSTEP 4: Leave the word alone now.<\/p>\n<p>Try it out on these words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>patch safe book bomb bag rope loss bridge mat dish doll spoon bee<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The answers: <a class=\"spoiler_link_show\" href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"wpSpoilerToggle(document.getElementById('id932286066'), this, 'show', 'hide')\">show<\/a>\n<div class=\"spoiler_div\" id=\"id932286066\" style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">p\u00e6t\u0283\u0259z se\u026afs b\u028aks b\u0252mz b\u00e6\u0261z r\u0259\u028aps l\u0252s\u0259z br\u026ad\u0292\u0259z m\u00e6ts d\u026a\u0283\u0259z d\u0252lz spu\u02d0nz bi\u02d0z<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>2013_07_21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to pronounce the plural forms of nouns which follow the usual pattern of adding &lt;(e)s&gt;. Here is a recipe. It doesn&#8217;t work for all nouns, but it does work for an awful lot of them. First we divide English sounds into three groups. \u00a0The first is called V+. V+ \u00a0= all vowels and b [&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\/558"}],"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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558\/revisions\/608"}],"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=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}