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thorps

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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

Thorps are small villages or hamlets, especially in older or northern English usage. The singular is thorp.

Detailed Definition
Thorp is an old word for a small settlement, often found in place names and medieval or dialect English. Tennyson uses it to suggest the brook passing by many tiny rural communities.
Example
Example in poetry:
“By twenty thorps, a little town” uses an old word for small villages or hamlets; A “thorp” places a poem in a rural, often medieval English landscape; “Thorps under snow” can suggest scattered settlement and isolation; Place-words such as thorp make historical geography audible in verse
Additional Notes
The word "thorps" in the line "By twenty thorps, a little town" is an archaic plural for small villages and is not common modern vocabulary.; Found in the poem, The Brook by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Also Known As
hamlets villages settlements small towns
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