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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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lafayette

/ˌlæfaɪˈɛt/ noun, proper noun

Forms lafayettes Fayette la Fayette deFayette de Fayette de la Fayette delaFayette de Lafayette dela Fayette

  1. noun The dollarfish.
  2. noun A fish, the goody or spot (Leiostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.
  3. proper noun Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette (1757–1834), a French aristocrat who is considered a national hero in both France and the United States for his participation in the French and American revolutions.
  4. proper noun A city in Contra Costa County, California.
  5. proper noun A city and home rule municipality in Boulder County, Colorado.
  6. proper noun A city, the county seat of Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
  7. proper noun A large city, the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana.
  8. proper noun A small city in Nicollet County, Minnesota.
  9. proper noun A village in Allen County, Ohio.
  10. proper noun A census-designated place in Madison County, Ohio.
  11. proper noun (countable) A surname from French. Alternative form of Lafayette.
  12. proper noun A city, the county seat of Chambers County, Alabama, United States.
  13. proper noun A city, the county seat of Walker County, Georgia, United States.
  14. proper noun A home rule city in Christian County, Kentucky, United States.
  15. proper noun A town in Onondaga County, New York, United States.

Synonyms

La Fayette Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette

Etymology

French surname from Occitan, "the little beech tree".

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