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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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wilding

noun, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of wild

Forms wildings

  1. noun A wild apple or apple tree.
  2. noun Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc.
  3. noun (US, criminology, sociology) A form of youth violence characterized by a group of young people committing violent acts randomly and without specific targets.
  4. adjective (poetic) Not cultivated or tame; wild.
  5. proper noun A surname.
  6. noun (philately) Any of a series of British stamps that have an image of Queen Elizabeth II based on a portrait by Dorothy Wilding.

Etymology

From Middle English wilding, wylding, wyldyng (“grass, straw, or the stems of wild plants”), equivalent to wild + -ing.

From wild + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A wild or uncultivated plant; especially, a wild apple tree or crab apple; also, the fruit of such a plant. Spenser.
  2. adjective Not tame, domesticated, or cultivated; wild. [Poetic] "Wilding flowers." Tennyson.

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “wilding”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details