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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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quandong

/ˈkwandɒŋ/ noun, proper noun

Forms quandongs

  1. noun A small southern Australian shrub (Santalum acuminatum) or its edible red fruit.
  2. noun ash quandong
  3. noun bitter quandong (Santalum murrayanum) or its fruit.
  4. noun desert quandong (Santalum lanceolatum) or its fruit.
  5. noun blue quandong (Elaeocarpus angustifolius) or its fruit.
  6. noun Arnhem Land quandong, bony quandong (Elaeocarpus arnhemicus)
  7. noun Kuranda quandong (Elaeocarpus bancroftii)
  8. noun brown quandong (Elaeocarpus coorangooloo)
  9. proper noun A locality in the City of Wyndham, Victoria, Australia

Synonyms

quandang quandong tree Eucarya acuminata Fusanus acuminatus blue fig Brisbane quandong silver quandong tree Elaeocarpus grandis quantong native peach

Etymology

From Wiradjuri guwandhang.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree (Fusanus acuminatus) of the Sandalwood family; --called also quandang.

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