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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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rowel

/ˈɹoʊəl/ noun, verb

Forms rowels roweling rowelling roweled rowelled rowell

  1. noun A small spiked wheel on the end of a spur of certain types.
  2. noun A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
  3. noun A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
  4. verb (transitive) To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
  5. verb (transitive) To fit with spurs.
  6. verb (transitive) To apply the spur to. “to rowel a horse”
  7. verb (transitive, figurative) To incite; to goad.

Etymology

From Middle English rowel, rowell, rowelle, from Old French roel, roiele (compare modern French rouelle), from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotella.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points.
  2. noun A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.
  3. verb To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse). Mortimer.

Etymology [OF. roele, rouele, properly, a little wheel, F. rouelle collop, slice, LL. rotella a little wheel, dim. of L. rota a wheel. See Roll, and cf. Rota.]

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