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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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program

UK /ˈpɹəʊ̯ˌɡɹæm/ · US /ˈpɹoʊ̯ˌɡɹæm/ noun, verb

Forms programs programming programing programmed programed programme

  1. noun A set of structured activities; a plan of action. “get with the program”
  2. noun A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity. “The program consisted of ads for restaurants and the credits of everyone connected with the play.”
  3. noun (politics) A set of principal goals which someone, especially a political party or candidate, supports.
  4. noun (broadcasting) A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television. “Tonight’s program was hosted by Johnny Carson.”
  5. noun (computing) A computer program. “The program runs on both Linux and Microsoft Windows.”
  6. noun (especially in the phrase “get with the program”) A particular mindset or method of doing things.
  7. noun (music, computing) A custom tracklist. “program playback”
  8. verb (transitive) To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task. “He programmed the DVR to record his favorite show.”
  9. verb (transitive) To develop (software) by writing program code. “I programmed a small game as a demonstration.”
  10. verb (transitive) To put together the schedule of an event. “Mary will program Tuesday’s festivities.”
  11. verb (broadcasting) To schedule the programming; to determine what will be broadcast.
  12. verb (transitive) To cause to automatically behave in a particular way. “The lab rat was programmed to press the lever when the bell rang.”

Synonyms

playbill platform show application computer program plan programme broadcast political platform political program course of study curriculum syllabus computer programme

Etymology

Borrowed from French programme, from Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”), from προγράφω (prográphō, “to set forth as a public notice”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + γράφω (gráphō, “to write”). Doublet of programma.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Same as Programme.

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