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- orthography - When are tion, sion, and cion used - English . . .
I am confused when the spellings "tion", "sion", and "cion" are used in words that contain the "shun" sound Are there any rules to help me understand when to use the correct spelling in a word?
- What are the rules to pronounce the suffix -tion in English, -tʃən . . .
Italian: rela zione, astra zione, conges tione Of course, the "rule" I outlined does not apply to all words that just end in the letters "tion" in English: the most notable counterexample is the word cation However, I can't think of any counterexamples to my rule when dealing with the actual suffix -tion
- suffixes - Word formation with the nominal suffix -tion: when and why . . .
The insertion of an "-a" or "-i" suffix between "-tion" and the preceding syllable is a consequence of two things: The relative emphasis of the preceding syllable (is it lightly emphasized, strongly emphasized, or de-emphasized?) and the final consonant vowel array
- Why is i before a -tion suffix pronounced like a short vowel even . . .
We noticed that before the suffix -tion, the "i" is always a short sound, despite being an open syllable All the other vowels are mostly pronounced as long sounds, as expected in open syllables
- Why is tion pronounced as shun but not chun?
The suffix tion is pronounced as ʃən (shun) and not tʃən (chun) According to an answer by user Kosmonaut to a question "What rules of English allow the first t in “patient” to make an sh sound?": The reason something pronounced [ʃ] ("sh") would ever get the spelling "ti" is because of palatalization
- verbs usage for TION and ING - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Can someone explain the rationale of adding TION to a verb In other words, when I take a verb such as LIMIT and turn it into a noun I can make it limit, limiting, or limitation The word
- What determines the addition of the suffixes tion and sion?
In English, -tion is a more common termination than -sion, so there is not much pressure within English to replace -tion with -sion: in fact, -tion spellings have expanded compared to Latin in the case of certain words that originally had -xio (n) such as reflexion and connexion
- Why coercion and not coertion or coersion?
It looks like it is an exception from the more common -tion -sion spellings, retaining the original French spelling -tion syllable formed when the word-forming element -ion (from Latin -io) is fixed to a base or to another suffix ending in -t or -te In Middle English, in words via Old French, it often was -cion (in coercion and suspicion, however, the -c- belongs to the base) -cion It
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