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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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pinger

UK /ˈpɪŋ.ə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈpɪŋ.ɚ/ noun

Forms pingers

  1. noun A device that emits a short, high-pitched sound burst, such as in sonar or other echo location systems. “We couldn't take the boat into the shallows near the reef because our sonar pinger was broken.”
  2. noun A device that periodically emits a signal that can be monitored to permit movement tracking. “The scientist attached a pinger to the carapace of the sea turtle to track its migration.”
  3. noun A computer program that sends a ping message over a network. “Some people like fancy pingers with extra features, but I always use the default ping application.”
  4. noun A user of a ping program; one who pings. “Every time we replace the main page, we get flooded with pingers making sure our web site is still there.”
  5. noun (slang) An illicit drug, especially ecstasy, taken for recreational purposes. “That was a great party. Everyone took a pinger or two.”

Etymology

From ping + -er.

Sources: Wiktionary — from the Wiktionary entry “pinger”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details