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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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daguerreotype

UK /dəˈɡɛɹ.(ɪ.)əʊˌtaɪp/ · US /dəˈɡɛɚ.(i.)oʊˌtaɪp/ noun, verb

Forms daguerreotypes daguerreotyping daguerreotyped

  1. noun An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors; such a photograph.
  2. noun The process of making such photographs.
  3. noun (obsolete, figurative) A faithful or exact representation or description.
  4. verb (transitive, intransitive) To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).
  5. verb (transitive, obsolete, figurative) To describe or represent exactly or faithfully; depict.

Etymology

From French daguerréotype. Named after French artist Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.
  2. noun The process of taking such pictures.
  3. verb To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.
  4. verb To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.

Etymology [From Daguerre the inventor + -type.]

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