{"id":928,"date":"2013-08-05T13:27:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T13:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=928"},"modified":"2013-08-05T13:27:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T13:27:50","slug":"blue-green-red","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=928","title":{"rendered":"Blue, green, red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English has a lot of compound nouns where the first element is the name of a colour. Here are some examples of compounds with <em>blue<\/em>, <em>green<\/em>, or <em>red <\/em>as the first element. All of these have the main stress on the colour term:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>bluebeard bluebell blueberry bluebird bluebottle bluejay blueprint bluestocking bluetit<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>greenback greenbelt greenfinch greenfly greengage greengrocer greenhorn greenhouse greenroom greenstick greenwood<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>redbreast redcoat redeye redhead redneck redshank redskin redstart redwing redwood<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice that compound colour adjectives have the main stress on the final element, so <em>skyblue<\/em>, <em>seagreen <\/em>and <em>bloodred<\/em>, for example, all have the stress pattern \u02cc-\u02c8-<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>2013_08_05<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English has a lot of compound nouns where the first element is the name of a colour. Here are some examples of compounds with blue, green, or red as the first element. All of these have the main stress on the colour term: bluebeard bluebell blueberry bluebird bluebottle bluejay blueprint bluestocking bluetit greenback greenbelt greenfinch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":256,"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\/928"}],"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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/928\/revisions\/930"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}