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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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lethe

/ˈliːθi/ noun, proper noun

Forms lethes

  1. noun Forgetfulness of the past; oblivion.
  2. noun Dissimulation.
  3. noun (obsolete, rare) Death.
  4. proper noun (Greek mythology) The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris.
  5. proper noun (with or without the, Greek mythology) The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they would forget their time on Earth.

Synonyms

River Lethe

Etymology

From Latin Lēthē, from Ancient Greek Λήθη (Lḗthē, “forgetfulness”).

Possibly influenced by Latin lētum (“killing”).

From Latin Lēthē, from Ancient Greek Λήθη (Lḗthē).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Death.[Obs.] Shak.
  2. noun A river of Hades whose waters when drunk caused forgetfulness of the past.
  3. noun Oblivion; a draught of oblivion; forgetfulness.

Etymology [See Lethal.]

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