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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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goth

UK /ɡɒθ/ · US /ɡɑθ/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms goths gother gothest

  1. noun (uncountable) A punk-derived subculture of people who predominantly dress in black, associated with mournful music and attitudes. “Philip has been into goth for many years, haven't you dear?”
  2. noun (uncountable, music) A style of punk rock influenced by glam rock; gothic rock.
  3. noun (countable) A person who is part of the goth subculture. “We saw a solitary goth hanging out on a ledge by the train station.”
  4. noun (UK, slang, countable) A member of an alternative subculture based around rock music.
  5. adjective Relating to goth music or people. “With her black clothes and dyed hair, Melanie looked very goth compared to her classmates.”
  6. noun A member of the East Germanic people known for their invasion of the western Roman Empire and subsequent founding of successor states in Italy and Spain during Late Antiquity.
  7. noun (figuratively) An uncivilized person, a barbarian, a vandal.
  8. proper noun A surname

Synonyms

emo grebo greeber mosher rocker peasant barbarian boor churl tyke tike

Etymology

From gothic rock, first used by John Stickney in reference to The Doors in 1967 and used by the late 1970s to describe the musical scene that gave rise to the goth subculture, both from a supposed aesthetic similarity to dark and moody 19th century gothic fiction and earlier gothic art and architecture, from Late Latin gothicus (“Gothic, barbaric”), from Ancient Greek Γοτθικός (Gotthikós), from Ancient Greek Γότθοι (Gótthoi, “Goths”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), proposed to derive from unattested Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰 (*guta).

From Middle English Gothes, Gotes (both plural). In turn partly from Old English Gotan, singular Gota, and partly from Late Latin Gothi. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gutô, perhaps from *geutaną (“to pour”). Compare Old Norse Goti (“Gotlander, Goth”), and related also to Gutnish, Gotland.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe and the Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overran and took an important part in subverting the Roman empire.
  2. noun One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person. Chesterfield.

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