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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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tammy

/ˈtami/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms tammies tammying tammied tamin tamine taminy Tammi Tammie

  1. noun A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
  2. verb (cooking, transitive) To strain through a tammy.
  3. noun A tam o’shanter hat.
  4. proper noun A female given name popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.

Synonyms

tam tam-o'-shanter

Etymology

Uncertain; compare obsolete French tamise (but if there was borrowing, it is unclear in which direction).

From French tamis, assimilated to Etymology 1, above.

Ellipsis of tammy shanter.

A diminutive of Tamsin and Tamara, later also used for new names beginning with Tam such as Tamika and Tamiya.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, --used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
  2. noun A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis.

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