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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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pintail

/ˈpɪnˌteɪl/ noun

Forms pintails

  1. noun A pintail duck, a type of dabbling duck with a characteristic pointed tail.
  2. noun A northern pintail, Anas acuta, a dabbling duck of the northern hemisphere that has a long pointed tail.
  3. noun A pin-tailed snipe, Gallinago stenura.
  4. noun Any of various species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Acisoma, endemic to Africa and Asia.
  5. noun (engineering) The end of a fastening pin or mandrel on a Huckbolt or pop rivet that is broken off when installation is complete.
  6. noun (surfing) A surfboard with a pointed back end.

Synonyms

cracker northern pintail sea pheasant sea-pheasant sprigtail pin-tailed duck Anas acuta

Etymology

From pin + tail.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon.
  2. noun The sharp-tailed grouse of the great plains and Rocky Mountains (Pediocætes phasianellus); --called also pintailed grouse, pintailed chicken, springtail, and sharptail.

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