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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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gaggle

/ˈɡæɡl̩/ noun, verb

Forms gaggles gaggling gaggled

  1. noun (collective) A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water; other groups of birds.
  2. noun (by extension) Any group or gathering of related things, particularly one perceived as noisy, boisterous or chaotic.
  3. noun (collective, historical): A group of women.
  4. verb To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.

Synonyms

bunch women ladies

Etymology

From Middle English gagelen (“to cackle; cackle like a goose”). Compare Dutch gaggelen (“to cackle”), Icelandic gagl (“small goose; gosling”), Norwegian Nynorsk gagl (“wild goose”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make a noise like a goose; to cackle. Bacon.
  2. noun A flock of wild geese. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
  3. noun A law or ruling prohibiting proper or free debate, as in closure. [Colloq. or Cant]

Etymology [Of imitative origin; cf. D. gaggelen, gagelen, G. gackeln, gackern, MHG. g, E. giggle, cackle.]

Etymology [Cf. Gaggle v. i.]

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