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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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bugle

/ˈbjuːɡəl/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms bugles bugling bugled

  1. noun A horn used by hunters.
  2. noun (music) A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
  3. noun The sound of something that bugles. “the bugle of an elk”
  4. noun A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
  5. verb To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.
  6. noun (fashion) A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim.
  7. adjective (obsolete) jet-black
  8. noun A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
  9. proper noun A village in Treverbyn parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0158).

Synonyms

trumpet bugleweed carpet bugle ground pine common bugle

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman bugle (“young ox, heifer; bugle”), from Latin būculus (“young ox, steer”).

From Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”), probably from Latin būculus.

From Middle English bugle (“bugleweed”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Medieval Latin bugilla, probably related to Late Latin bugillo.

Probably named after the Bugle Inn.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. E. Phillips.
  2. noun A horn used by hunters.
  3. noun A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; --called also the Kent bugle.
  4. noun An elingated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.

Etymology [OE. bugle buffalo, buffalo's horn, OF. bugle, fr. L. buculus a young bullock, steer, dim. of bos ox. See Cow the animal.]

Etymology [See Bugle a wild ox.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “bugle”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details