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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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aboard

UK /əˈbɔːd/ · US /əˈbɔɹd/ adverb, preposition

  1. adverb On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. “We all climbed aboard.”
  2. adverb On or onto a horse, a camel, etc. “to sling a saddle aboard”
  3. adverb (baseball) On base. “He doubled with two men aboard, scoring them both.”
  4. adverb Into a team, group, or company. “The office manager welcomed him aboard.”
  5. adverb (nautical) Alongside. “The ships came close aboard to pass messages.”
  6. preposition On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane. “We all went aboard the ship.”
  7. preposition Onto a horse.
  8. preposition (obsolete) Across; athwart; alongside.

Synonyms

on board on base alongside

Etymology

From Middle English abord, from a- (“on”) + bord (“board, side of a ship”); equivalent to a- + board.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
  2. adverb Alongside; as, close aboard. Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses.
  3. preposition On board of; as, to go aboard a ship.
  4. preposition Across; athwart. [Obs.]

Etymology [Pref. a- on, in + board.]

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