{"id":424,"date":"2011-08-09T10:35:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T09:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=424"},"modified":"2013-05-25T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T15:08:08","slug":"aphaeresis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=424","title":{"rendered":":Aphaeresis:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation <strong>GB<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u0259\u02c8f\u026a\u0259r\u0259s\u026as<\/strong><\/span>, <strong>GA<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u0259\u02c8f\u026ar\u0259s\u026as<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Word-initial deletion. An example is the historical loss of initial <em>k<\/em> in English in such words as <em>knife, knot<\/em>. A couple of examples of present day aphaeresis are the pronunciations of <em>it is<\/em> as <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>t\u026az<\/strong><\/span> and of <em>it was<\/em> as <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>tw\u0259z<\/strong><\/span>.  A more specific term for this kind of aphaeresis which involves the deletion of an initial unstressed vowel is <strong>aphesis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation GB: \u0259\u02c8f\u026a\u0259r\u0259s\u026as, GA: \u0259\u02c8f\u026ar\u0259s\u026as Word-initial deletion. An example is the historical loss of initial k in English in such words as knife, knot. A couple of examples of present day aphaeresis are the pronunciations of it is as t\u026az &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=424\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":118,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/424\/revisions\/1552"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}