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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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chaperon

UK /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹəʊn/ · US /ˈʃæ.pəˌɹoʊn/ noun, verb

Forms chaperons chaperoning chaperoned chaperone

  1. noun An adult who accompanies or supervises one or more young, unmarried men or women during social occasions, usually with the specific intent of preventing some types of social or sexual interactions or illegal behavior.
  2. noun A type of hood, often ornamental or official, with an attached cape and a tail, later worn as a hat with the face hole put over the top of the head instead.
  3. noun A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
  4. verb To accompany; to escort.
  5. verb To mother.

Synonyms

chaperone

Etymology

From French chaperon (“hood”), from Middle French, "head covering", from Old French chape.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood.
  2. noun A divice placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
  3. verb To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize.

Etymology [F. chaperon. See Chape, Cape, Cap.]

Etymology [Cf. F. chaperonner, fr. chaperon.]

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