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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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galosh

/ɡəˈlɒʃ/ noun, verb

Forms galoshes galoshing galoshed galoche galoshe

  1. noun (UK) A waterproof overshoe used to provide protection from rain or snow.
  2. noun (US) A waterproof rubber boot, intended to be worn in wet or muddy conditions.
  3. noun A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.
  4. verb (intransitive) To walk while wearing, or as if wearing, galoshes; to splash about.

Synonyms

gumboot Wellington boots arctic golosh rubber gumshoe

Etymology

From Middle English galoche, from Old French galoche (“a shoe with a wooden sole”), but its further history is uncertain.
* From Vulgar Latin *galopium or Late Latin calopedia (“a wooden shoe; a shoe with a wooden sole”), from Ancient Greek κᾱλοπόδιον (kālopódion), diminutive of κᾱλόπους (kālópous, “shoemaker's block”), compound of κᾶλον (kâlon, “wood”) and πούς (poús, “foot”). (More at holt and foot.)
* From Late Latin gallicula, diminutive of Latin gallica (solea) (“Gallic (sandal)”).
* From Old French galette (“flat round cake”), from galet (“pebble”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Same as Galoche, Galoshe.
  2. noun A strip of material, as leather, running around a shoe at and above the sole, as for protection or ornament.

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