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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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google

/ˈɡuː.ɡəl/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms googles googling googled Googleing Google-ing

  1. verb (transitive) To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
  2. verb Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
  3. verb Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
  4. noun An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
  5. noun (dated) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine. “The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.”
  6. verb To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine. “Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.”
  7. verb (by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine. “I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.”
  8. verb (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet. “His name googles.”
  9. proper noun (trademark) A particular Internet company.
  10. proper noun (computing, trademark) Google Search, a very popular search engine operated by the company of the same name. “He did some research on Google for his history project.”

Synonyms

Google hit ghit

Etymology

Back-formation from googly + -le (frequentative suffix (indicating continuousness or repetition) forming verbs).

From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).

See googol.

An accidental misspelling of googol (“one followed by a hundred zeros”), alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.

Sources: Wiktionary — from the Wiktionary entry “google”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details