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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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gel

/d͡ʒɛl/ noun, verb

Also a form of girl

Forms gels gelling gelled

  1. noun A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.
  2. noun (cooking) A food preparation or dish in the form of a flavored gel. “apple gel”
  3. noun Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair.
  4. noun A film of flexible transparent plastic (such as acetate, celluloid, or cellophane) suitable for making superimpositions or diapositives (image to overlay on other images, especially for overhead projectors); a digital virtual equivalent of this.
  5. verb (transitive) To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
  6. verb (intransitive) To become a gel: to set up.
  7. verb (intransitive) To develop a rapport. “He was a nice guy, and I got on OK with his friends, but the two of us never really gelled.”
  8. verb (intransitive, figurative) To come together to form something; to cohere. “We put our ideas together and they eventually gelled into a saleable product.”
  9. noun (UK, slang) A girl.

Synonyms

set jell out colloidal gel gelatin mousse

Etymology

Coined by Thomas Graham in the mid 19th century as a clipping of gelatin, from French gélatine, from Italian gelatina, diminutive form of gelata (“iced”), from Latin gelata, past participle of gelo (“to freeze”), from gelu (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
For the meaning development compare with Russian сту́день (stúdenʹ, “aspic, jelly, gel”) related to студёный (studjónyj, “cold”).

Imitative of upper-class British pronunciation of girl.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “gel”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details