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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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brig

/bɹɪɡ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of bridge

Forms brigs brigging brigged

  1. noun (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast.
  2. noun (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
  3. verb To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.
  4. verb To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.
  5. noun (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.
  6. noun Brigadier.
  7. proper noun A district in Valais canton, Switzerland.
  8. proper noun A town in Brig-Glis municipality, Valais canton, Switzerland.

Synonyms

Brigue

Etymology

Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.

From Scots brig, from Old Norse bryggja, from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ. Doublet of bridge.

Clipping of brigadier.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A bridge. [Scot.] Burns.
  2. noun A two-masted, square-rigged vessel. Hermaphrodite brig, a two-masted vessel square-rigged forward and schooner-rigged aft. See Illustration in Appendix.

Etymology [Shortened from Brigantine.]

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