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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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coconut

UK /ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/ · US /ˈkoʊ.kəˌnʌt/ noun

Forms coconuts coco-nut cocoanut cokernut

  1. noun A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
  2. noun A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
  3. noun (uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.
  4. noun The coconut palm.
  5. noun (US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or other dark-skinned person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture.
  6. noun (South Africa, Australia, Kenya, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a black race traitor.
  7. noun (Singapore, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Malay person who cannot speak Malay.
  8. noun (Malaysia, self-deprecatory) An Indian person who cannot speak Tamil.

Synonyms

Oreo Uncle Tom nut coconut meat cocoanut coconut palm coco palm coco cocoa palm coconut tree Cocos nucifera

Etymology

From coco + nut. In reference to assimilated Hispanic or black people, derived from the fruit's exotic origins. The slur originates from the idea that one is "brown on the outside, white on the inside". In reference to Polynesians, from the ubiquity of coconut palms in the area.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “coconut”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details