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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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Illinois

/ˌɪləˈnɔɪ/ proper noun, noun, adjective

  1. proper noun A state of the United States, named for the people.
  2. proper noun A confederation of Algonquian tribes who lived in the Mississippi River Valley.
  3. proper noun The Algonquian language spoken by these tribes; the Miami-Illinois language.
  4. proper noun A river in the United States that flows from Grundy County, Illinois, into the Mississippi River.
  5. proper noun A river in Colorado, United States that flows from the Never Summer Mountains in the Rockies into the Michigan River.
  6. proper noun A river in Oklahoma, United States that flows from the Ozarks into the Arkansas River.
  7. proper noun A river in Oregon, United States that flows from the southwestern corner of the state into the Rogue River.
  8. proper noun A township in Pope County, Arkansas, United States.
  9. noun A member of the above-mentioned tribe.
  10. adjective Of or relating to the Illinois Confederacy, its people or its culture.

Synonyms

Illinese Prairie State Land of Lincoln IL

Etymology

From French Illinois, an adaptation of an Algonquian (perhaps Ojibwe) name derived from Miami ilenweewa (“he speaks the regular way”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A tribe of North American Indians, which formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers.

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