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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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talbot

/ˈtɔːlbət/ noun, proper noun

Forms talbots Talbott Talbut Talbutt Taulbut

  1. noun (physics) An mks unit of luminous energy, exactly corresponding to the SI lumen second.
  2. noun A type of hound with broad mouth and large ears, once used for hunting and tracking.
  3. proper noun An English surname thought to be of Norman (Germanic) origin.
  4. proper noun A male given name.
  5. proper noun An earldom in the British peerage
  6. proper noun A former brand of English motor car.
  7. proper noun An unincorporated community in Benton County, Indiana, United States.
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in Menominee County, Michigan, United States.
  9. proper noun A town in the Shire of Central Goldfields, central Victoria, Australia.

Synonyms

Fox Talbot William Henry Fox Talbot

Etymology

After Henry Fox Talbot, a 19th-century pioneer of photography.

Possibly after a Norman family Talbot

From Middle English talbot, from Old French talebot (“bandit”); a Norman nickname applied to robbers who blackened their faces to avoid recognition, from Old High German *Talbald (personal name), from Old High German tal (“valley, dale”) + bald (“bold, courageous”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A sort of dog, noted for quick scent and eager pursuit of game.

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