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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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platoon

/pləˈtuːn/ noun, verb

Forms platoons platooning platooned

  1. noun (military) A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company.
  2. noun A subdivision of a fire company, led by a captain or lieutenant.
  3. noun A group of self-driving vehicles travelling in a close convoy and communicating electronically with each other.
  4. noun (education, historical) A group of children in the platoon grouping education system.
  5. verb (baseball) To alternate starts with a teammate of opposite handedness, depending on the handedness of the opposing pitcher “Taylor has been hitting poorly against left-handers, and Morgan has been hitting poorly against right-handers, so they will platoon.”
  6. verb (sports) To specialize in a particular position or playing style.
  7. verb Of self-driving vehicles: to travel in a close convoy, each vehicle communicating electronically with the others.

Etymology

From obsolete French plauton, variant of peloton, from Middle French pelote + -on. Doublet of peloton. Compare pellet.

Webster’s 1913

Etymology [F. peloton a ball of thread, a knot or group of men, a platoon, from pelote a ball formed of things wound round. See Pellet.]

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