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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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mister

UK /ˈmɪstə/ · US /ˈmɪstəɹ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms misters mistering mistered Messieurs

  1. noun Alternative spelling of Mister, especially when used as a form of address without a name. “You may sit here, mister.”
  2. noun A man. “There are too many misters and not enough sisters up in this club tonight, for my taste.”
  3. verb (ambitransitive) To address by the title of "mister". [from 18th c.]
  4. noun (obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
  5. noun (now rare, dialectal) A kind, type of.
  6. noun (obsolete) Need (of something).
  7. noun (obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.
  8. verb (obsolete, impersonal) To be necessary; to matter.
  9. noun A device that makes or sprays mist. “Odessa D. uses a mister Sunday to fight the 106-degree heat at a NASCAR race in Fontana, California.”
  10. noun With a surname. “This is Mister Smith, assistant to the President.”
  11. noun With a full name. “This is Mister James Smith, assistant to the President.”
  12. noun (regional or dated subservient) With a first name only. “Will Mister Robert be staying for dinner?”
  13. noun An official form of address to a male president of a nation. “Mister President”
  14. noun A formal address to any male official of an organization. “Mister Secretary”
  15. noun An official title of a military man, usually anyone below rank of captain.
  16. noun A male warrant officer or cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point.
  17. noun An informal title that is used to create a nickname, placeholder name, or other moniker for a male. “Mister Suave”
  18. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

Mr Mr.

Etymology

Unaccented variant of master, attested since the 15th century.

From Middle English mister, myster, from Anglo-Norman mester, meister (et al.), from Latin misterium, a medieval conflation of Latin ministerium (“ministry”) with Latin mysterium (“mystery”). Doublet of métier.

mist + -er

See mister.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth. It is usually written in the abbreviated form Mr.
  2. verb To address or mention by the title Mr.; as, he mistered me in a formal way. [Colloq.]
  3. noun A trade, art, or occupation. [Obs.]
  4. noun Manner; kind; sort. [Obs.] Spenser.

Etymology [See Master, and cf. Mistress.]

Etymology [OF. mistier trade, office, ministry, need, F. métier trade, fr. L. ministerium service, office, ministry. See Ministry, Mystery trade.]

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