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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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jugular

UK /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.jʊl.ə/ · US /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.jəl.ɚ/ adjective, noun

Forms jugulars jugulary

  1. adjective (anatomy, relational) Relating to, or located near, the neck or throat.
  2. adjective (relational) Of or pertaining to the jugular vein.
  3. adjective (zootomy, of fish) Having ventral fins attached under the throat.
  4. adjective (humorous, relational) Relating to juggling.
  5. noun (by extension) Any critical vulnerability. “It was vicious; he went for the jugular.”

Synonyms

jugular vein vena jugularis

Etymology

Late 16th century borrowing from Late Latin jugulāris, from jugulum (“the collarbone; the hollow part of the neck above the collarbone; the throat”) + -āris (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to jugulum + -ar.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective (a) Of or pertaining to the throat or neck; as, the jugular vein.
  2. adjective Having the ventral fins beneath the throat; --said of certain fishes.
  3. noun One of the large veins which return the blood from the head to the heart through two chief trunks, an external and an internal, on each side of the neck; --called also the jugular vein.
  4. noun Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one of a division of fishes (Jugulares).

Etymology [L. jugulum the collar bone, which joins together the shoulders and the breast, the throat, akin to jungere to yoke, to join: cf. F. jugulaire. See Join.]

Etymology [Cf. F. jugulaire. See Jugular, a.]

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