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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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

stanhope

/ˈstæ.nəp/ noun, proper noun

Forms stanhopes

  1. noun A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.
  2. noun A simple, one-piece microscope consisting of a cylinder of glass with each end curved outwards, one being more convex than the other
  3. noun An optical device, typically embedded in a bijou, utilising a modified Stanhope lens for viewing microphotographs embedded in the device; invented by René Dagron
  4. proper noun A market town and civil parish in Weardale, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NY9939).
  5. proper noun A suburb and civil parish in Ashford, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9940).
  6. proper noun A small settlement in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, historically in Peeblesshire (OS grid ref NT1229).
  7. proper noun An English habitational surname from Old English.
  8. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage.
  9. proper noun A locality in the Singleton council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  10. proper noun A town in the Shire of Campaspe, northern Victoria, Australia.
  11. proper noun A village in Quebec.

Etymology

From Stanhope (“a surname”). Named after Captain Hon. Henry Fitzroy Stanhope, for whom it was first built.

Named after Charles, the third Earl of Stanhope, the inventor of this magnifying glass design.

The British placenames are from Old English stan (“stone”) + hōp (“valley”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; --so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.

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