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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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minge

/mɪnd͡ʒ/ noun, verb

Also a form of midge ming

Forms minges minging minged

  1. noun (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) The pubic hair and vulva.
  2. noun (US, archaic, dialectal) Synonym of midge (“small biting fly”).
  3. verb (obsolete) Synonym of ming (“to mix”).

Synonyms

axe wound badly packed kebab bearded clam beaver beef curtains burger chocha clam cooch coochie coochy cookie coot cooter crack cunny cunt fanny foo-foo front bottom

Etymology

From Angloromani mintš, from Romani minʒ (“female genitals”), probably from Old Armenian մէջ (mēǰ, “middle, midst; inside, interior; the middle part of the body; loins, reins; waist; belly, abdomen; back”). Doublet of medius.
Other possible etymology: from the Latin mingere (“to urinate”), synecdochically used to describe the organ through an associated function (possibly ironically or euphemistically).

Probably corrupted from midge.

From Middle English mingen, mengen, from Old English mengan (“to mix; mingle”). More at ming.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To mingle; to mix. [Obs.]
  2. noun A small biting fly; a midge. [Local, U. S.]

Etymology [AS. myngian; akin to E. mind.]

Etymology [Prob. corrupt. fr. midge.]

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