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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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spurge

UK /spɜːdʒ/ · US /spɜɹdʒ/ noun, verb

Forms spurges spurging spurged

  1. noun Any plant of the genus Euphorbia, a diverse genus of over 2,000 species.
  2. noun Any plant of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae.
  3. noun A plant resembling those in genus Euphorbia in some aspect of its appearance.
  4. verb (intransitive) To emit foam; to froth; said of the emission of yeast from beer during fermentation.

Synonyms

euphorbia

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English spurge, from Old French espurge, from espurgier (“to purge”), from Latin expurgo (“to purge”); the bitter milky sap of these plants was formerly used as a purgative.

Uncertain, but likely closely related to etymology 1, thus a doublet of purge.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To emit foam; to froth; --said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation. [Obs.] W. Cartright.
  2. noun Any plant of the genus Euphobia. See Euphorbia. Spurge flax, an evergreen shrub (Daphne Gnidium) with crowded narrow leaves. It is native of Southern Europe.

Etymology [Etymol. uncertain.]

Etymology [OF. espurge, F. épurge, from OF. espurgier to purge, L. expurgare. See Expurgate, Purge.]

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