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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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barytone

/ˈbæɹɪtəʊn/ adjective, noun

Also a form of baritone

Forms barytones barytona baritone

  1. adjective (linguistics) Not having an accent on the last syllable.
  2. adjective (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a word not having an accent on the last syllable.
  3. noun (linguistics) A word that is not accented on the ultimate syllable.
  4. noun (linguistics) A word that is accented on the penultimate syllable.

Synonyms

baritone

Etymology

From Latin barytonus /barytonos, from Ancient Greek βαρύτονος (barútonos). Doublet of baritone and baryton.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice.
  2. adjective Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.
  3. noun (a) A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other.
  4. noun A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.

Etymology [Gr. ; heavy + tone.]

Etymology [F. baryton: cf. It. baritono.]

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