Klryz
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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newton

/ˈn(j)uːtən/ noun, proper noun

Forms newtons

  1. noun In the International System of Units, the derived unit of force; the force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram by one metre per second per second.
  2. noun A cookie consisting of fruit paste in a sheath of pastry dough.
  3. proper noun A small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL4349).
  4. proper noun A suburb of Chester, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4168). Not to be confused with Newtown, Chester.
  5. proper noun A hamlet in Tattenhall and District parish, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, previously in Newton by Tattenhall parish (OS grid ref SJ5059).
  6. proper noun A village in Dalton Town with Newton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Barrow-in-Furness borough (OS grid ref SD2371).
  7. proper noun A village in Blackwell parish, Bolsover district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK4459).
  8. proper noun A village in Sturminster Newton parish, Dorset (OS grid ref ST7813; Sturminster Newton was originally Sturminster).
  9. proper noun A suburban area near Hyde, Tameside borough, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SJ9596).
  10. proper noun A hamlet and civil parish in north Herefordshire, served by Hope under Dinmore and Newton Parish Council (OS grid ref SO5053).

Synonyms

Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton N

Etymology

Named after the English scientist Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1726) in 1948.

Attested since the 1990s, from Fig Newtons, a brand name (later renamed just "Newtons" in 2012) which was named for Newton, Massachusetts.

Inherited from Middle English Neweton, from Old English nēowa tūn (“new town”). Compare same construction in Italian Napoli (“Naples”) and in Arabic نَابُلُس (nābulus, “Nablus”).
The unexpected Early Modern pronunciation with /ɛʊ̯/ instead of /ɪʊ̯/, as securely attested in Richard Hodges' 1644 English Primrose and confirmed by obsolete Welsh Newtwnn, is due to trisyllabic shortening in Old English nēowa tūn or Middle English Neweton.

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