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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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palmer

UK /ˈpɑːmə/ · US /ˈpɑmɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms palmers palmering palmered

  1. noun (now historical) A pilgrim who had been to the Holy Land and who brought back a palm branch in signification; a wandering religious votary.
  2. noun A ferule used to punish schoolboys by striking their palms.
  3. noun One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
  4. verb (fishing) In fly fishing, to wrap a hackle etc. along the whole shank of a hook.
  5. proper noun (countable) An English surname transferred from the nickname.
  6. proper noun (countable) A male given name.
  7. proper noun A city, the borough seat of Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska.
  8. proper noun A village in Christian County, Illinois.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in Lake County, Indiana.
  10. proper noun A minor city in Pocahontas County, Iowa.
  11. proper noun A minor city in Washington County, Kansas.
  12. proper noun A city in Hampden County, Massachusetts.

Synonyms

Arnold Palmer Arnold Daniel Palmer

Etymology

From Middle English palmer, from Anglo-Norman palmer, from Old French paumier (“palmer”), from Medieval Latin palmārius (“palmer”), from palma (“palm tree”).

From noun.

From the transitive verb to palm.

From Middle English palmer (“a pilgrim from the Holy Land”), from Old French.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
  2. noun A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places. Chaucer.

Etymology [From Palm, v. t.]

Etymology [From Palm the tree.]

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