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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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mordant

UK /ˈmɔːdn̩t/ · US /ˈmoɹd(ə)nt/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms mordants mordanting mordanted

  1. adjective Having or showing a sharp or critical quality.
  2. adjective Serving to fix a dye to a fiber.
  3. noun Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.
  4. noun Any corrosive substance used in etching.
  5. noun A glutinous size used as a ground for gilding, to make the gold leaf adhere.
  6. verb (transitive) To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant. “Mordant these goods for dyeing.”

Synonyms

biting caustic keen sarcastic severe etchant black grim corrosive erosive vitriolic

Etymology

From French mordant, from Latin mordeō. Doublet of mordent.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
  2. adjective Serving to fix colors.
  3. noun Any corroding substance used in etching.
  4. noun Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.

Etymology [F., p.pr. of mordere to bite; L. mordere. See Morsel.]

Etymology [F., originally, biting.]

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