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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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alkanet

noun

Forms alkanets

  1. noun The dyeing matter extracted from the roots of the plant with water or oil, used for cotton especially but also silk and wool, giving a deep red colour.
  2. noun Other plants of the genus Alkanna.
  3. noun Common bugloss (Anchusa officinalis).
  4. noun Yellow alkanet (Anchusa ochroleuca).
  5. noun False alkanet (Cynoglottis barrelieri, syn. Anchusa barrelieri).
  6. noun Bastard alkanet or field gromwell (Lithospermum arvense).
  7. noun Green alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens), a blue-flowered plant with evergreen leaves.
  8. noun Puccoon (Sanguinaria canadensis).

Synonyms

orchanet orcanette dyer's alkanet bugloss dyers' bugloss Spanish bugloss Languedoc bugloss Anchusa officinalis

Etymology

Diminutive of Spanish alcana, alheña.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A dyeing matter extracted from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria, which gives a fine deep red color.
  2. noun (a) A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye; orchanet.

Etymology [Dim. of Sp. alcana, alhe, in which al is the Ar. article. See Henna, and cf. Orchanet.]

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