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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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placard

UK /ˈplæk.ɑːd/ · US /ˈplæk.ɑɹd/ noun, verb

Forms placards placarding placarded plackart plaquet

  1. noun A sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement on one side for display in a public place.
  2. noun (obsolete) A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.
  3. noun (obsolete) Permission given by authority; a license. “to give a placard to do something”
  4. noun (historical) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate of armour.
  5. noun (historical) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.
  6. noun The woodwork and frame of the door of a closet etc.
  7. verb To affix a placard to, or mark with a placard nearby.
  8. verb To announce with placards. “to placard a sale”

Synonyms

poster posting notice bill card

Etymology

From Middle English placard (“official document”), from Middle French placard, placart, plaquart (“a placard, a writing pasted on a wall”), from the Old French verb plaquer, plaquier (“to stick or paste, roughcast”), from Middle Dutch placken, plecken (“to glue or fasten, plaster, patch”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *plaggą (“a piece of cloth, patch”), equivalent to plaque + -ard.
Related to Middle Low German placken (“to smear with lime or clay, plaster”), Saterland Frisian Plak, Plakke (“a hit, smack, slap”), German Placken (“a spot, patch”), Icelandic plagg (“a document”), Hebrew פלקט (plakat, “a large sheet of paper, typically with a photo or writing, posted on the wall”), English play. Compare also Modern Dutch plakkaat (“placard”), Saterland Frisian Plakoat (“a placard, poster”). More at play.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.
  2. noun Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something. [Obs.] ller.
  3. verb To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city.
  4. verb To announce by placards; as, to placard a sale.

Etymology [F., fr. plaquer to lay or clap on, plaque plate, tablet; probably from Dutch, cf. D. plakken to paste, post up, plak a flat piece of wood.]

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