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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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goofy

UK /ˈɡuːfi/ · US /ˈɡufi/ adjective, noun, adverb, proper noun

Forms goofier goofiest goofies

  1. adjective (chiefly Canada, US, informal) Quirky or silly, often in a humorous manner; daft.
  2. noun Synonym of goof (“a foolish and/or silly person”).
  3. noun (chiefly historical) A button (“clothing fastener”) in the shape of a person, object, etc., often collected as a hobby.
  4. adjective Of a person: having crooked, especially protruding, front teeth; buck-toothed.
  5. adjective (skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing) Riding on a skateboard, snowboard, or surfboard with one's right foot forward.
  6. adverb (skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing) Of riding on a skateboard, snowboard, or surfboard: with one's right foot forward.
  7. noun (skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing) A skateboarder, snowboarder, or surfer who rides their board with the right foot forward; a goofy-foot.
  8. proper noun A cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company: a tall, slow-witted anthropomorphic dog with a goofy laugh.

Synonyms

asinine balmy barmy bedaft loony daft derpy dim-headed dim-witted dopey dull-headed dull-witted dumb duncical fatuous fuzzy-headed fuzzy-minded gauvison idiotic idle cockamamie cockamamy sappy silly wacky whacky zany

Antonyms

ungoofy astute clairvoyant deep frood grounded judicious oracular perspicacious politic profound prudent

Etymology

From goof (“foolish and/or silly person”, noun) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense form ‘having the quality of’; and forming informal nouns denoting associated persons or things).

From Goofy, the name of a Walt Disney cartoon character in the form of an anthropomorphic dog, from goofy (adjective): see etymology 1. Etymology 2, adjective sense 1 (“having crooked, especially protruding, front teeth”) refers the character’s buckteeth, while etymology 2, adjective sense 2 (“riding with one’s right foot forward”) and the corresponding adverb and noun senses refer to the character being depicted surfing in that manner in the cartoon Hawaiian Holiday (1937).

From goofy.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “goofy”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details