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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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copperhead

noun

Forms copperheads

  1. noun A venomous pit viper of species Agkistrodon contortrix, found in parts of North America.
  2. noun A water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus)
  3. noun A Chinese copperhead (Deinagkistrodon acutus), a venomous pit viper species found in Southeast Asia
  4. noun Any Australian copperhead (Austrelaps spp.), a venomous elapid found in southern Australia and Tasmania.
  5. noun A copperhead rat snake (Coelognathus radiatus, syn. Elaphe radiata), a non-venomous colubrid species found in southern Asia.
  6. noun (derogatory) Someone with ginger hair.
  7. noun (US, historical, slang) A northerner who sympathized with the South or wanted to end hostilities during the American Civil War.
  8. noun (US, historical, derogatory) Any member of the Democratic party.

Synonyms

Peace Democrat Agkistrodon contortrix Denisonia superba

Etymology

From copper + head.

After the dangerous copperhead snake, to which propagandists of the Republican Party compared Democrats interested in appeasement.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A poisonous American serpent (Ancistrodon conotortrix), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; --called also copper-belly, and red viper.
  2. noun A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [U.S.]

Etymology [From its color.]

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