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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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scot

UK /ˈskɒt/ · US /ˈskɑt/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of Scott

Forms scots

  1. noun (UK, historical) A local tax, paid originally to the lord or ruler and later to a sheriff.
  2. noun (obsolete, slang) A fury; a fit of temper.
  3. noun A person born in or native to Scotland.
  4. proper noun A surname
  5. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage, variant of Scott.

Synonyms

Scotsman Scotchman

Etymology

From Middle English scot, scott, from Old English sċot, sċott, sċeot, ġesċot (“contribution; payment; tax; fine”), cognate with Old Norse skot, from Proto-Germanic *skutą (“that which is thrown or cast; projectile; missile”), related to English shoot. Later influenced by Old French escot (Modern écot), itself of Germanic origin. Doublet of shot.

Inherited from Middle English Scot, from Old English Sċottas (“people from Ireland, Irishmen”), from Late Latin Scōttī (see Scōtī for more).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A name for a horse. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. noun A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scotsman, or Scotchman.
  3. noun A portion of money assessed or paid; a tax or contribution; a mulct; a fine; a shot. Scot and lot, formerly, a parish assessment laid on subjects according to their ability. [Eng.] Cowell. Now, a phrase for obligations of every kind regarded collectivelly.

Etymology [Cf. L. Skoti, pl., AS. Scotta, pl. Skottas, Sceottas.]

Etymology [Icel. skot; or OF. escot, F. écot, LL. scottum, scotum, from a kindred German word; akin to AS. scot, and E. shot, shoot; cf. AS. sceótan to shoot, to contribute. See Shoot, and cf. Shot.]

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