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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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mommy

/ˈmɒm.i/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of mummy

Forms mommies mommying mommied mommier mommiest

  1. noun (US, Canada, usually childish) Mother.
  2. noun (vulgar) A sexually attractive mother.
  3. noun (slang, by extension) Any sexually attractive woman.
  4. noun (BDSM) A dominant female partner, often used as a term of address. “My girlfriend loves it when I call her mommy.”
  5. verb (US, Canada, rare, informal) To treat someone like a mother would; to mother someone.
  6. adjective (US, Canada, rare, informal, chiefly in the superlative) Characteristic of a mother; motherly. “She is the mommiest of mommies.”
  7. proper noun (Canada, US, chiefly used by young children) One's mother

Synonyms

ma mama mamma mom momma mum mummy MILF mammy

Etymology

From mom + -y (diminutive suffix).

From mom + -y (adjectival suffix).

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