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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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thwack

/θwæk/ verb, noun, interjection

Forms thwacks thwacking thwacked thwackest thwackedst thwacketh

  1. verb To hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; to thrash, to whack.
  2. verb (also figuratively) To drive or force (someone or something) by, or as if by, beating or hitting; to knock.
  3. verb To pack (people or things) closely together; to cram.
  4. verb (figuratively) To decisively defeat (someone) in a contest; to beat, to thrash.
  5. verb (obsolete) To crowd or pack (a place or thing) with people, objects, etc.
  6. verb To fall down hard with a thump.
  7. verb (obsolete) To be crammed or filled full.
  8. verb (obsolete, rare) Of people: to crowd or pack a place.
  9. noun An act of hitting hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; a whack; also, a powerful stroke involved in such hitting; a blow, a strike.
  10. noun A dull or heavy slapping sound.
  11. interjection Used to represent the dull or heavy sound of someone or something being hit or slapped.

Synonyms

thack bethwack bang baste batter beat belabor blow boom-boom buffet butt calcitrate cuff dab dash dowse feeze fetch one a blow flap give toco smack

Etymology

* partly onomatopoeic, from the sound of something being beaten (compare whack); and
* partly derived from Late Middle English twakken, twake (“to hit (someone) with something; to pat; to stroke”), probably from Middle English thakken, thakke (“to dab; to pat; to stroke”) [and other forms] (whence thack (obsolete except Britain, dialectal)), from Old English þaccian (“to beat; to pat; to touch softly, stroke; to strike gently, clap, tap”), from Proto-West Germanic *þakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *þakwōną (“to pat; to tap; to touch”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- (“to grasp with the hand; to touch”). Doublet of tangent.
The noun and interjection are derived from the verb.
* Latin tangō (“touch”)
* Old Dutch þakolōn (“to stroke”)
* Old Norse þykkr (“a blow, thump, thwack”) (Icelandic þjaka, þjökka (“to beat, thump, thwack”); Norwegian tjåka (“to strike, beat”))

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To strike with something flat or heavy; to bang, or thrash: to thump. "A distant thwacking sound." W. Irving.
  2. verb To fill to overflow. [Obs.] Stanyhurst.
  3. noun A heavy blow with something flat or heavy; a thump.

Etymology [Cf. OE. thakken to stroke, AS. , E. whack.]

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