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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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brent

/bɹɛnt/ proper noun

Also a form of brant bren burn burnt

Forms brents

  1. proper noun A habitational surname from Old English.
  2. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname, of 20th century and later usage.
  3. proper noun A housing estate in Polperro parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX2150).
  4. proper noun A small river in Greater London, England, which joins the Thames at Brentford.
  5. proper noun A London borough in Greater London, England, created in 1965 from the merger of the boroughs of Wembley and Willesden.
  6. proper noun A community in Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada, named after Brentwood, England.
  7. proper noun A city in Bibb County, Alabama.
  8. proper noun A census-designated place in Escambia County, Florida.

Synonyms

brant brant goose brent goose

Etymology

English surname from placenames in Devon and Somerset, from Old English brant (“steep”), referring to hills. Compare Brents.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Steep; high. [Obs.]
  2. adjective Smooth; unwrinkled. [Scot.]
  3. verb of Bren. Burnt. [Obs.]
  4. noun A brant. See Brant.

Etymology [AS. brant; akin to Dan. brat, Icel. brattr, steep.]

Etymology [Cf. Brant.]

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