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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

Long, slender wetland plants, traditionally cut and spread as floor covering.

Detailed Definition
Rushes are coarse, grasslike plants that commonly grow in wet ground. In the poem, they are strewn across the floor as part of an old-fashioned domestic preparation of the room.
Example
Example in poetry:
Rushes are tall wetland plants, often used historically to cover floors or weave mats and baskets; “the floor was swept / And strewn with rushes, rosemary and may” evokes domestic ritual; “Rushes whispered at the edge of the fen” uses their sound and habitat; A contemporary environmental poem may note “plastic caught among the rushes,” contrasting nature with waste
Additional Notes
In “strewn with rushes,” the word refers to a traditional floor-covering material rather than the familiar verb meaning to hurry.; Found in the poem, After Death by Christina Rossetti
Also Known As
reeds rush plants marsh grasses water plants
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