{"id":5242,"date":"2012-06-18T12:04:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T11:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=5242"},"modified":"2012-07-16T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T15:16:03","slug":"weak-form","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=5242","title":{"rendered":":Weak form:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In most varieties of English some function words (prepositions, auxiliary verbs, pronouns, conjunctions) have two or more different pronunciations. The weak form is that typically used when the word is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1542\">unstressed<\/a>. For example, the weak form of <em>but<\/em> is <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>b\u0259t<\/strong><\/span>. The strong form of these words is that used when the word is stressed, or when <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=5240\">stranded<\/a>. The strong form of <em>but <\/em>is <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>b\u028ct<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In most varieties of English some function words (prepositions, auxiliary verbs, pronouns, conjunctions) have two or more different pronunciations. The weak form is that typically used when the word is unstressed. For example, the weak form of but is b\u0259t. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=5242\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":223,"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\/5242"}],"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=5242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5742,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5242\/revisions\/5742"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}