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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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gospel

UK /ˈɡɒspəl/ · US /ˈɡɑspəl/ noun, verb

Forms gospels gospeling gospelling gospeled gospelled

  1. noun The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the birth, ministry, passion, and resurrection of Jesus.
  2. noun An account of those aspects of Jesus' life, generally written during the first several centuries of the Common Era.
  3. noun (Protestantism) The teaching of Divine grace as distinguished from the Law or Divine commandments.
  4. noun A message expected to have positive reception or effect, one promoted as offering important (or even infallible) guiding principles.
  5. noun (uncountable) That which is absolutely authoritative (definitive).
  6. noun (uncountable) Gospel music.
  7. verb (transitive) To instruct in, declare, or communicate the gospel; to evangelise.

Synonyms

evangel Gospels gospel truth gospel singing religious doctrine church doctrine creed

Etymology

From Middle English gospel, gospell, godspel, godspell, goddspell, from Old English godspell (“gospel”), corresponding to God + spell (“talk, tale, story”), literally “the message of God”, believed to be an alteration of earlier *gōdspell (literally “good news”), used to translate ecclesiastical Latin bona annūntiātiō, itself a translation of Ecclesiastical Latin ēvangelium / Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “evangel”, literally “good news”) (English evangel). Compare Old Saxon gōdspel and godspell (“gospel”), Old High German and Middle High German gotspel (“gospel”), Icelandic guðspjall (“gospel”), and the modern calque Malayalam സുവിശേഷം (suviśēṣaṁ).

From Middle English gospellen, from Old English godspellian (“to preach the gospel, evangelise”), from the noun (see above).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Glad tidings; especially, the good news concerning Christ, the Kingdom of God, and salvation.
  2. noun One of the four narratives of the life and death of Jesus Christ, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
  3. adjective Accordant with, or relating to, the gospel; evangelical; as, gospel righteousness. Bp. Warburton.
  4. verb To instruct in the gospel. [Obs.] Shak.

Etymology [OE. gospel, godspel, AS. godspell; god God + spell story, tale. See God, and Spell, v.]

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