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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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gopher

UK /ˈɡəʊfə/ · US /ˈɡoʊfɚ/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of gofer

Forms gophers gauffre

  1. noun A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
  2. noun A ground squirrel (Marmotinae spp.).
  3. noun A gopher tortoise (Gopherus spp.).
  4. noun A gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus).
  5. noun (programming, slang) A Go programmer.
  6. proper noun (Internet, historical) An Internet protocol for document search and retrieval.

Synonyms

goffer Minnesotan ground squirrel spermophile pocket gopher pouched rat gopher tortoise gopher turtle Gopherus polypemus

Etymology

Perhaps an adaptation of Cajun French gaufre (literally “honeycomb, waffle”), based on the analogy of holes in the ground to the indentations in a honeycomb or a waffle (doublet of waffle). Alternatively, from Muskogean.

From the gopher, mascot of the University of Minnesota, where the Gopher protocol was developed.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidæ; --called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.
  2. noun One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridæ; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); --called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile.

Etymology [F. gaufre waffle, honeycomb. See Gauffer.]

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