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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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aspen

/ˈæspən/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms aspens

  1. adjective Pertaining to the aspen tree.
  2. adjective (obsolete) Tremulous, trembling.
  3. adjective (obsolete) Resembling an asp in some way
  4. adjective (of a woman's tongue) wagging, gossiping.
  5. noun A poplar tree, especially of section Populus sect. Populus, of medium-size trees with thin, straight trunks of a greenish-white color. “Above a certain elevation, the aspens gave way to scrubby, gnarled pines.”
  6. noun (uncountable) The wood of such a tree; usually pale, lightweight and soft. “She claimed that aspen was the only "proper" material from which to make a wicker basket.”
  7. proper noun A ski-resort town, the county seat of Pitkin County, Colorado.
  8. proper noun A small community in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia.
  9. proper noun A female given name from English of modern usage, denominated for the aspen tree.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English aspen, corresponding to asp + -en.

From Middle English aspen, from Old English æspen, Old English æspan (combining form), from Old English æspe (“aspen”). More at asp.

Named for its aspen trees.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of several species of poplar bearing this name, especially the Populus tremula, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood.

Etymology [AS. æsp, æps; akin to OHG. aspa, Icel. ösp, Dan. æsp, Sw. asp, D. esp, G. espe, äspe, aspe; cf. Lettish apsa, Lith. apuszis.]

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