There are eight meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun progeny , four of which are labelled obsolete. The earliest known use of the noun progeny is in the Middle English period โ Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. View the pronunciation model here. Simple text respell breaks words into syllables, separated by a hyphen.
The syllable which carries the primary stress is written in capital letters. This key covers both British and U.
English Simple Text Respell. More about OED's frequency bands. Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams version 2 , a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between and The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.
For sets of homographs distinct entries that share the same word-form, e. This may result in inaccuracies. Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm.
This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus. Modern frequency series are derived from a corpus of 20 billion words, covering the period from to the present. The corpus is mainly compiled from online news sources, and covers all major varieties of World English.
