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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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gage

/ɡeɪd͡ʒ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Also a form of gauge

Forms gages gaging gaged

  1. verb To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.
  2. verb (archaic) To bet or wager (something).
  3. verb (obsolete) To deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn.
  4. noun Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
  5. noun (obsolete) Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
  6. noun A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
  7. noun (slang, dated, uncountable) Marijuana
  8. noun (archaic, UK, slang) A pint pot.
  9. noun (archaic, UK, slang, metonymic) A drink.
  10. noun (archaic, UK, slang) A tobacco pipe.
  11. noun (archaic, UK, slang) A chamber pot.
  12. noun (archaic, UK, slang) A small quantity of anything.
  13. noun (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A quart pot.
  14. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation.
  15. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
  16. proper noun A female given name.
  17. proper noun An unincorporated community in Ballard County, Kentucky.
  18. proper noun A ghost town in Luna County, New Mexico.
  19. proper noun A town in Ellis County, Oklahoma, named after Lyman J. Gage.
  20. proper noun An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.

Synonyms

pot grass green goddess dope weed sess sens smoke skunk locoweed Mary Jane gauge bet on back stake game punt

Etymology

From Middle English gage, from later Old French or early Middle French gager (verb), (also guagier in Old French) gage (noun), ultimately from Frankish *waddi, from Proto-Germanic *wadją (whence English wed). Doublet of wage, from the same origin through the Old Northern French variant wage. See also mortgage.

Back-formation from greengage.

See gauge.

An occupational surname from Middle English gage, guage (“measure”) for an assayer, or gage (“pledge”) for a moneylender.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
  2. noun A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance. "There I throw my gage." Shak.
  3. noun A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.
  4. verb To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge. [Obs.]

Etymology [F. gage, LL. gadium, wadium; of German origin; cf. Goth. wadi, OHG. wetti, weti, akin to E. wed. See Wed, and cf. Wage, n.]

Etymology [So called because an English family named Gage imported the greengage from France, in the last century.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “gage”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details