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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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sophomore

UK /ˈsɒf.ə.mɔː/ · US /ˈsɑf.mɔɹ/ adjective, noun

Forms sophomores

  1. adjective (US) The second in a series, especially, the second of an artist’s albums or the second of four years in a high school (tenth grade) or university. “The band’s sophomore album built upon the success of their debut release, catapulting them to megastardom.”
  2. adjective Sophomoric.
  3. noun (US, Philippines) A second-year undergraduate student in a college or university, or a second-year student in a four-year secondary school or high school. “She was very mature for a sophomore and had several friends who were juniors or even seniors.”
  4. noun (US, horse-racing) A three-year-old horse. “The filly had looked promising as a sophomore, but concerns over her health had prompted the owner to pull her from the season’s early races.”

Synonyms

soph second-year

Etymology

From earlier sophumer, from the obsolete sophom, sophum (“sophism or dialectical exercise”), from Ancient Greek σόφισμα (sóphisma). Likely influenced by Ancient Greek σοφός (sophós, “wise”) + μωρός (mōrós, “fool”). Compare oxymoron (literally “sharp-dull”), a similar contradiction.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One belonging to the second of the four classes in an American college, or one next above a freshman. [Formerly written also sophimore.]

Etymology [Probably fr. soph or sophister + Gr. Soph-Mor as "the next distinctive appellation to Freshman," but the term has now almost ceased to be known at the English university from whence it came.]

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