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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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pedagogue

/ˈpɛdəɡɒɡ/ noun, verb

Forms pedagogues pedagoguing pedagogued pedagog paedagogue pædagogue

  1. noun A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
  2. noun A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher.
  3. noun (historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
  4. verb To teach.

Synonyms

educator pedagog

Etymology

From Middle English pedagoge, from Middle French pedagogue, from Latin paedagōgus, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγός (paidagōgós), from παῖς (paîs, “child”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “guide”) (from ἄγω (ágō, “lead”)). By surface analysis, ped- (“child”) + -agogue.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
  2. noun A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.
  3. verb To play the pedagogue toward. [Obs.] Prior.

Etymology [F. pédagogue, L. paedagogus, Gr. Page a servant, Agent.]

Etymology [Cf. L. paedagogare to instruct.]

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