Klryz
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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banter

UK /ˈbæntə/ · US /ˈbæntɚ/ noun, verb

Forms banters bantering bantered

  1. noun Sharp, good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
  2. noun Good-humoured bits of monologue and/or conversational prompts used in any of a wide range of occupations that must frequently interact with the public (for example, store clerks, salespersons, nurses).
  3. verb (intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.
  4. verb (intransitive) To play or do something amusing.
  5. verb (transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.
  6. verb (transitive) To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
  7. verb (transitive) To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
  8. verb (transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.
  9. verb (UK, dialect) To haggle; cheapen the price.

Synonyms

pleasantry raillery kid wind up chaff give-and-take backchat jolly josh

Etymology

1670s as verb, 1680s as noun. The origin is unknown, possibly from London street slang; ostensibly as *bant + -er (frequentative suffix). Possibly an Anglo-Gaelicism from the Irish bean (“woman”), so that "banter" means "talk of women."

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To address playful good-natured ridicule to, --the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.
  2. verb To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like. [Archaic]
  3. noun The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.

Etymology [Prob. corrupted fr. F. badiner to joke, or perh. fr. E. bandy to beat to and fro. See Badinage, and cf. Barter fr. OF. barater.]

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