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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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polo

UK /ˈpəʊ.ləʊ/ · US /ˈpoʊloʊ/ noun, verb, interjection, proper noun

Forms polos poloing poloed

  1. noun (uncountable) A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
  2. noun The game of ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
  3. noun (countable) A polo shirt.
  4. verb (intransitive) To play the game of polo.
  5. noun A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.
  6. noun (Philippines) A dress shirt.
  7. verb (intransitive) To give the cry of "polo!" in the marco polo game.
  8. noun Synonym of pilaf.
  9. interjection Shouted by a player of the game Marco Polo. Compare Marco.
  10. proper noun A surname from Italian or Spanish

Synonyms

pilaf Marco Polo

Etymology

From Balti پولو (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ་ལོ (spo lo, “ball”).

From Spanish, an air or popular song in Andalusia.

Unknown.

From the game marco polo, from the explorer Marco Polo, from Latin Paulus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback.
  2. noun A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.

Etymology [Of Eastern origin; -- properly, the ball used in the game.]

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