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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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bongo

UK /ˈbɒŋ.ɡəʊ/ · US /ˈbɑŋ.ɡoʊ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms bongos bongoes bongoing bongoed

  1. noun A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.
  2. noun Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.
  3. verb (intransitive) To play the bongo drums.
  4. verb (intransitive) Of the heart, etc.: to beat with an irregular rhythm.
  5. verb (transitive) To hit something rhythmically with the hands.
  6. proper noun A Central Sudanic language spoken by the Bongo people in sparsely populated areas of Bahr al Ghazal in South Sudan.
  7. proper noun A gewog of Chhukha District, Bhutan.
  8. noun An ethnic group living at the eastern side of the Albert Nile River in northwestern Uganda and in neighbouring South Sudan in small, scattered settlements south and east of Wau.
  9. noun An agricultural people of Gabon in equatorial Africa.

Synonyms

bongo drum Bungu Dor Babongo Bazimba Tragelaphus eurycerus Boocercus eurycerus

Etymology

From Spanish bongo.

From United States Spanish bongó, from a Bantu language; probably Ekele boungu.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Either of two large antelopes (Boöcercus eurycercus of West Africa, and B. isaaci of East Africa) of a reddish or chestnut-brown color with narrow white stripes on the body. Their flesh is especially esteemed as food.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “bongo”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details