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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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franklin

/ˈfɹæŋk.lɪn/ noun, proper noun

Forms franklins

  1. noun (historical) A freeholder, especially as belonging to a class of landowners in the 14th and 15th century ranking at the bottom of the gentry.
  2. proper noun A surname transferred from the nickname.
  3. proper noun Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), American author, scientist, inventor, and diplomat, and one of the Founding Fathers.
  4. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname, partly in honor of Benjamin Franklin.
  5. proper noun A rural municipality of Manitoba, Canada.
  6. proper noun A municipality of Quebec, Canada.
  7. proper noun A town and river in Tasmania.
  8. proper noun (historical) An unrecognized proposed state in modern eastern Tennessee, United States. Capital: Greeneville.
  9. proper noun A town in Macon County, Alabama.
  10. noun (US, informal) A one-hundred-dollar bill, which carries the portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
  11. noun (numismatic slang) A Franklin half dollar.
  12. noun A member of the Franklin society, a social club at Whittier College founded in 1921.

Synonyms

Ben Ben Franklin Benjamin Benjamin Franklin John Hope Franklin

Etymology

From Middle English frankelein (“freeholder”), from Anglo-Norman fraunclein (“a landowner of free, but not noble birth”), from Old French fraunc (“free”), from Frankish *Frankō (“Frank”, literally “freeman”) + Old French -lein (“-ling”), from Frankish *-ling (“-ling”). More at frank, -ling.

From Middle English frankelein (“freeholder”), see franklin. The place names are mostly named after American statesman Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An English freeholder, or substantial householder. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. frankelein; cf. LL. franchilanus. See Frank, a.]

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