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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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lister

/ˈlɪstɚ/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of leister

Forms listers Lyster

  1. noun One who, or that which, lists or produces a listing.
  2. noun A person or organisation that creates or maintains lists.
  3. noun (birdwatching) A birdwatcher who keeps track of birds using different checklists.
  4. noun A double-mouldboard plough that throws a deep furrow and at the same time plants and covers grain in the bottom of the furrow.
  5. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation for a textile dyer.
  6. proper noun A small community in the Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada, originally named Camp Lister.

Synonyms

listmaker Joseph Lister Baron Lister lister plow lister plough middlebreaker middle buster

Antonyms

listee

Etymology

Compare list (“a strip, border”), probably applied to the furrow or the ridge of earth along the furrow.

English occupational surname from the archaic noun litster (“dyer”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.
  2. noun One who makes a list or roll.
  3. noun Same as Leister.

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