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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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slapdash

/ˈslæpdæʃ/ adjective, adverb, verb

Forms slapdashes slapdashing slapdashed

  1. adjective Produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.
  2. adverb In a hasty or careless manner.
  3. adverb Directly, right there; slap-bang. “Van Eyck signed his portrait of the Arnolfinis slapdash in the center of the painting.”
  4. adverb With a slap; all at once; slap.
  5. verb (colloquial) To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast. “to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall”

Synonyms

carelessly haphazardly hastily directly haphazard slipshod sloppy slam-bang bang slap smack bolt

Etymology

From slap + dash. First attested in the late 17th century, meaning "careless".

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In a bold, careless manner; at random. [Colloq.]
  2. adverb With a slap; all at once; slap. [Colloq.] Prior.
  3. verb To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast; as, to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall, or to slapdash a wall. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

Etymology [Slap + dash.]

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