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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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ho

UK /həʊ/ · US /hoʊ/ interjection, noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of hoe whore

Forms hos hoes heaux hoeing hoed hoe 'ho

  1. interjection (nautical) Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts. “Sail ho!”
  2. interjection halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
  3. interjection (rare) Said accompanying a vigorous attack.
  4. noun A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
  5. noun (derogatory) A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive term of abuse for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality. “Bros before hoes!”
  6. noun (offensive) A woman in general; a bitch.
  7. verb (US, ambitransitive, slang, vulgar) To act as a ho, to prostitute.
  8. noun (obsolete) Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.
  9. verb (obsolete) To care, be anxious, to long.
  10. noun A Central-Eastern Indian Adivasi tribe numbering around 1 million, mainly following the religion of Sarna Dhorom
  11. proper noun A Munda language spoken in India and Bangladesh.
  12. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

holmium atomic number 67

Etymology

From Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), from Old English hō, probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare Dutch ho, German ho, Old French ho! (“hold!, halt!”).

Pronunciation spelling of whore in non-rhotic accents with the dough-door merger, such as some varieties of African American Vernacular English; compare mo (“more”), fo' (“for; four”). The noun first appears c. 1964, whereas the verb first appears c. 1972.

From Middle English howe, houwe, hoȝe, from Old English hogu and hoga, from Proto-Germanic *hugô, *hugiz, *huguz (“mind, thought, understanding”), akin to Old High German hugu, hugi (Middle High German hüge), Old Saxon hugi (Middle Dutch höghe, Dutch heug), Old Norse hugr, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐍃 (hugs).

From Middle English howen, hoȝen, hogien, from Old English hogian, hugian, from Proto-Germanic *hugjaną. Cognate with Middle Scots huik, Old High German hucken, Old Saxon huggjan, Dutch heugen, Old Norse hyggja, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hugjan).

Webster’s 1913

  1. pronoun Who. [Obs.] In some Chaucer MSS.
  2. noun A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
  3. interjection Halloo! attend! --a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach. "What noise there, ho" Shak.
  4. interjection Stop! stand still! hold! --a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything. [Written also whoa, and, formerly, hoo.]

Etymology [See Ho, interj., 2.]

Etymology [Cf. F. & G. ho.]

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