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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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fiddler

/ˈfɪdələ(ɹ)/ noun, proper noun

Forms fiddlers fiddlah fiddluh

  1. noun One who plays the fiddle.
  2. noun One who fiddles; a cheat.
  3. noun One who fiddles or tweaks.
  4. noun A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle.
  5. noun The common European sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos); so called because it habitually wags its tail up and down resembling the back and forth movement of a fiddler.
  6. noun A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.
  7. noun (UK, slang, obsolete) A coin of little value: a sixpence or a farthing.
  8. noun (nautical, slang) The capstan-house on a steamer.
  9. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation.

Synonyms

fiddlist fiddleist violinist twiddler tinkerer

Etymology

From Middle English fithelere, from Old English fiþelere, from *fiþele. By surface analysis, fiddl(e) + -er.
* (capstan-house): So called because the fiddle would sometimes be played to cheer the sailors working there.

From fiddler, an occupational surname for someone who played the fiddle.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who plays on a fiddle or violin.
  2. noun A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; --called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab.

Etymology [AS. fi.]

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