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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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hippie

/ˈhɪpi/ noun, adjective

Forms hippies hippier hippiest hippy

  1. noun (1950s slang) A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
  2. noun (1960s slang; still widely used in reference to that era, sometimes derogatory) One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.
  3. noun (modern slang, derogatory) A person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
  4. noun Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
  5. noun (dated, now rare) Someone who is or tries to be hip.
  6. adjective Of or pertaining to hippies. “That dress looks very hippie.”
  7. adjective (colloquial, humorous) Not conforming to generally accepted standards. “They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.”

Synonyms

beatnik tree hugger flower child hipster hepster trendite Corinthian faddist fashionable fashionist fashionista hepcat sophisto snappy dresser trendy voguie swell hippy

Etymology

From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also etymology of hippie.

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