{"id":639,"date":"2013-07-24T10:15:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=639"},"modified":"2013-10-12T13:21:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T13:21:44","slug":"silent-h","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=639","title":{"rendered":"Silent &lt;h&gt;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The letter is silent at the beginning of the following words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>heir honest honour hour<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and of course derivatives of these like<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>heiress honestly honourable hourly<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some, but not all, words beginning &lt;exh&gt; have silent &lt;h&gt; too. \u00a0Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>exhaust = <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u026a\u0261\u02c8z\u0254\u02d0st<\/span><br \/>\nexhibit =<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u026a\u0261\u02c8z\u026ab\u026at<\/span><br \/>\nexhilarating =<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u026a\u0261\u02c8z\u026al\u0259re\u026at\u026a\u014b<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are a few other words where &lt;h&gt; is usually silent: <em>annihilate<\/em> =<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u0259\u02c8na\u026a\u0259le\u026at<\/span> and <em>vehement <\/em>= <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8vi\u02d0\u0259m\u0259nt<\/span> and <em>vehicle <\/em>= <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8vi\u02d0\u026akl<\/span> or <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8vi\u02d0\u0259kl<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, &lt;h&gt; is always silent at the end of a word following a vowel. \u00a0Examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ah eh oh rajah Shah <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p>2013_07_24<br \/>\nUpdated: 2013_10_12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The letter is silent at the beginning of the following words: heir honest honour hour and of course derivatives of these like heiress honestly honourable hourly Some, but not all, words beginning &lt;exh&gt; have silent &lt;h&gt; too. \u00a0Here are some examples: exhaust = \u026a\u0261\u02c8z\u0254\u02d0st exhibit = \u026a\u0261\u02c8z\u026ab\u026at exhilarating = \u026a\u0261\u02c8z\u026al\u0259re\u026at\u026a\u014b There are a few other [&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\/639"}],"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=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/639\/revisions\/1546"}],"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=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}