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"ref": "2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170",
"text": "It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, \"Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh.\"",
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{
"ipa": "/ˈeɪ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪ"
},
{
"homophone": "A"
},
{
"homophone": "eh"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ay2.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/13/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ay2.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ay2.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/13/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ay2.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ay2.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "always"
},
{
"word": "continually"
},
{
"word": "forever"
},
{
"word": "aye"
}
],
"word": "ay"
}
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"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English heteronyms",
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with homophones",
"English two-letter words",
"Rhymes:English/eɪ",
"Rhymes:English/eɪ/1 syllable",
"zag:Metals"
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "rhg",
"2": "ee",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Rohingya: ee",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Rohingya: ee"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tl",
"2": "ey",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Tagalog: ey",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Tagalog: ey"
}
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"forms": [
{
"form": "ays",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "ays"
},
"expansion": "ay (plural ays)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Latin letter names"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170",
"text": "It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, \"Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5",
"text": "ETA [is spoken] as \"ee-tee-ay\" instead of \"I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa\"."
}
],
"glosses": [
"The name of the Latin-script letter A."
],
"links": [
[
"A",
"A#English"
]
]
}
],
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{
"word": "a"
}
],
"word": "ay"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English heteronyms",
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with homophones",
"English two-letter words",
"Rhymes:English/eɪ",
"Rhymes:English/eɪ/1 syllable",
"zag:Metals"
],
"etymology_number": 4,
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ay",
"name": "en-interj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"New Zealand English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013 November 13, “Surprising changes in the way Aucklanders speak”, in Stuff",
"text": "For example, New Zealanders tended to say \"ay\" at the end of sentences, but in the Asian community people used different tags to check whether people were still listening.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"New Zealand spelling of eh (question tag)"
],
"links": [
[
"eh",
"eh#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/eɪ/"
},
{
"ipa": "[æe̯]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪ"
},
{
"homophone": "A"
},
{
"homophone": "eh"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ay2.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/13/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ay2.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ay2.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/13/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ay2.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ay2.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "aye"
}
],
"word": "ay"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English heteronyms",
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with homophones",
"English two-letter words",
"Rhymes:English/eɪ",
"Rhymes:English/eɪ/1 syllable",
"zag:Metals"
],
"etymology_number": 5,
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "eh"
},
"expansion": "eh",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "hey"
},
"expansion": "hey",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "popularize",
"3": "popularized"
},
"expansion": "popularized",
"name": "l"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Origin uncertain; possibly related to eh and hey; popularized by a catch phrase in a 1970s sitcom.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ay",
"name": "en-interj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English links with manual fragments"
],
"glosses": [
"All right (inter); hooray (inter); cool (inter)."
],
"links": [
[
"All right",
"all right#Interjection"
],
[
"hooray",
"hooray#Interjection"
],
[
"cool",
"cool#Interjection"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/eɪ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪ"
},
{
"homophone": "A"
},
{
"homophone": "eh"
}
],
"word": "ay"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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