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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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chevron

UK /ˈʃɛvɹən/ · US /ˈʃɛvɹɑn/ noun, verb

Forms chevrons chevroning chevroned cheveron

  1. noun (heraldry) A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
  2. noun (by extension) Anything V-shaped similarly to the classic chevron shape.
  3. noun (collective) A group of birds in flight, when flying in a V formation, as in cranes, ducks, geese, gulls, pelicans and swans.
  4. noun (chiefly UK) One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
  5. noun A wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world.
  6. noun Synonym of arrowhead (“horse jump obstacle”).
  7. noun A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.
  8. noun An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
  9. verb To form or be formed into chevrons

Synonyms

wedge arrowhead stripe wicket angle bracket stripes grade insignia

Etymology

From Middle English cheveroun, from Old French chevron, the mark so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from Vulgar Latin *capriō, from Latin caper (“goat”), the likely connection between goats and rafters being the animal's horns.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.
  2. noun A distinguishing mark, above the elow, on the sleeve of a noncommisioned officer's coat.

Etymology [F., rafter, chevron, from chévre goat, OF. chevre, fr. L. capra she-goat. See Cheveril.]

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