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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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jive

/ˈd͡ʒaɪv/ verb, noun

Forms jives jiving jived jiver jivest

  1. verb (transitive, intransitive, US, colloquial) To deceive; to be deceptive. “Don’t try to jive me! I know where you were last night!”
  2. verb (intransitive, colloquial) To dance, originally to jive or swing music; later, to jazz, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, disco, etc.
  3. verb (intransitive) To speak in jive (jazz or hipster slang).
  4. noun (uncountable) A dance style popular in the 1940–50s.
  5. noun (uncountable) Swing, a style of jazz music.
  6. noun (uncountable) A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon.
  7. noun (US, colloquial) Synonym of bullshit: patent nonsense, transparently deceptive talk. “Don’t give me that jive. I know where you were last night.”
  8. noun (US, colloquial, often derogatory) African-American Vernacular English.
  9. noun (slang, dated) Marijuana
  10. verb (US) To jibe: to accord, to agree.

Synonyms

flummery bullshit swing swing music

Etymology

Unknown. Slang attested in African-American and rural American culture. Frequently used to imply lying, verbal deception or trickery. Has a possible historical antecedent in gyve (“shackle”). Alternatively, of African origin, compare Wolof jev, jeu (“to talk about someone absent, especially in a disparaging manner”).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “jive”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details