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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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bathos

/ˈbeɪθɒs/ noun

Forms bathoses

  1. noun Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
  2. noun (literature, art) A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
  3. noun An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
  4. noun A banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
  5. noun Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic.
  6. noun A hyperbole: excessiveness.
  7. noun (literature, art) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
  8. noun (uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.

Synonyms

narm sappiness cheesiness tweeness treacliness anticlimax banality triteness immaturity callowness chewing the scenery, hamminess mawkishness

Antonyms

depth pathos nadir

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάθος (báthos, “depth”). Employed ironically following Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, lampooning various errors in contemporary writers.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

Etymology [Gr. depth, fr. deep.]

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