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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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joust

/d͡ʒaʊst/ noun, verb

Forms jousts jousting jousted just

  1. noun A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field. “medieval joust”
  2. verb To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. “The knights prepared to joust in the tournament.”
  3. verb To engage in verbal sparring over an important issue. (used of two people, both of whom participate more or less equally) “verbally joust”
  4. verb (slang) To touch penises while engaging in a sex act, especially oral sex.

Synonyms

tilt

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French jouster (modern French jouter), from Vulgar Latin *juxtō, *iuxtō, *iuxtāre, from Latin iūxta (“close to”). English since the early 14th century.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. [Written also just.]
  2. noun A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field. [Written also just.]

Etymology [OE. justen, jousten, OF. jouster, jouster, joster, F. jouter, fr. L. juxta near to, nigh, from the root of jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Jostle.]

Etymology [OE. juste, jouste, OF. juste, jouste, joste, F. joute. See Joust, v. i.]

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