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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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heckle

/ˈhɛkəl/ verb, noun

Forms heckles heckling heckled

  1. verb (transitive) To question harshly in an attempt to find or reveal weaknesses.
  2. verb (transitive) To insult, tease, make fun of or badger, especially during a comedy performance. “Promise that you won't heckle me after my performance.”
  3. verb (textiles) To prepare (flax) for spinning, using special combs called hackles.
  4. noun The long shining feathers on a cock's neck.
  5. noun A feather ornament in the full-dress bonnets of Highland regiments.
  6. noun An rude interruption during a show, especially a comedy performance “The stand-up dealt well with the heckles from the crowd, replying with raucous banter to raise plenty of laughs.”

Synonyms

grill interrogate barrack hackle badger gird jeer roast taunt tease hatchel

Antonyms

cheer incite

Etymology

Transferred usage of Middle English hekelen (“to comb flax or hemp with a heckle”), from hekele (“a comb for flax or hemp”), from Middle Dutch hekelen (“to prickle, irritate”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakilōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakilōną, related to *hakô (“hook”). Doublet of hatchel. Related to hackle.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Same as Hackle.

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