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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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leigh

/ˈliː/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of lea lee

Forms leighs lea ley -leigh -ley -ly Lee

  1. noun (archaic) A meadow.
  2. proper noun A surname from Middle English, variant of Lee.
  3. proper noun A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
  4. proper noun (UK) A female given name, Female equivalent of Lee.
  5. proper noun A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD6500).
  6. proper noun A village and civil parish in Dorset (OS grid ref ST6108).
  7. proper noun The Leigh, a hamlet and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8626).
  8. proper noun A village and civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5446). Former spelling: Lyghe.
  9. proper noun A civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, which includes Church Leigh, Lower Leigh and Upper Leigh.

Synonyms

Vivien Leigh

Etymology

From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”) from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”). Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (suffix forming place names)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse ló (“clearing, meadow”). More at Waterloo.

From the nominative case of Old English lēah (“wood, meadow”), 'dweller by the wood or clearing'.

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