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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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fillip

/ˈfɪlɪp/ noun, verb

Forms fillips filliping fillipping filliped fillipped

  1. noun (archaic) The action of holding the tip of a finger against the thumb and then releasing it with a snap; a flick.
  2. noun A sharp strike or tap made using this action, or (by extension) by other means.
  3. noun (by extension) Something unimportant, a trifle; also, the brief time it takes to flick one's finger (see noun sense 1); a jiffy.
  4. noun (by extension) Something that excites or stimulates. “This measure gave a fillip to the housing market.”
  5. verb (transitive) To strike, project, or propel with a fillip (that is, a finger released quickly after being pressed against the thumb); to flick.
  6. verb (transitive, by extension) To project quickly; to snap.
  7. verb (transitive, by extension) To strike or tap smartly.
  8. verb (transitive, figuratively) To drive as if by a fillip (noun sense 1); to excite, stimulate, whet. “The spicy aroma filliped my appetite.”
  9. verb (ambitransitive) To make a fillip (noun sense 1) (with the fingers).

Synonyms

flick ping inflame animate awaken electrify enflame enkindle enthrill exagitate excite exhilarate exsuscitate fire fire the blood galvanize gin up ignite intoxicate kindle bonus

Etymology

From Middle English filippen, philippe (“to flick or snap a finger from against the thumb”); further origin uncertain, but probably imitative. See flip. It is not clear whether the verb is derived from the noun, or vice versa.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger. "You filip me o' the head." Shak.
  2. verb To snap; to project quickly.
  3. noun A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow.
  4. noun Something serving to rouse or excite.

Etymology [For filp, flip. Cf. Flippant.]

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