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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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dingy

/ˈdɪn.d͡ʒi/ adjective

Forms dingier dingiest dingies dingying dingied

  1. adjective Dark, dull.
  2. adjective Shabby, squalid, uncared-for.
  3. adjective (informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of a ding (the sound).

Synonyms

drab gloomy dreary dismal bland colourless dim dull faint lackluster leaden muddy sad sober uncolorful unholiday wan grimy dirty begrimed grubby grungy raunchy muddied blue dark disconsolate grim sorry drear

Antonyms

bright pristine

Etymology

From English dialectal (Kentish) dingy (“dirty”), of unknown origin, though probably from Middle English *dingy, dungy, from Old English *dyncgiġ (“covered with dung, dirty”), an umlaut form of duncge, dung (“dung”), equivalent to dung + -y, hence a doublet of dungy.

From ding + -y.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A kind of boat used in the East Indies. [Written also dinghey.]
  2. noun A ship's smallest boat.
  3. adjective Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.

Etymology [Bengalee dingi.]

Etymology [Prob. fr. dung. Cf. Dungy.]

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