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pram

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A four-wheeled carriage for a baby or infant; used in modern domestic and urban poetry to ground scenes of suburban life.

Detailed Definition
A pram is a British term for a baby carriage or stroller. In the poem, it appears in a domestic memory of the child being pushed along by the canal, giving the scene a specific everyday detail that may be unfamiliar to some readers outside British English.
Example
Example in poetry:
A pram is a baby carriage, especially in British usage, and can carry tenderness or social observation; “Pushing her dolls in a pram, by the old canal” makes the child imitate care; “A pram squeaked past the boarded shops” places infancy against an urban scene; In an elegy, “the empty pram / held only rain” lets an ordinary object imply absence
Additional Notes
The word "pram" in the quoted line is a British term that some readers may need to look up.; Found in the poem, Our Father Who Art in Prison by Richard
Also Known As
baby carriage stroller pushchair infant transport
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