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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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bagatelle

/ˌbæɡəˈtɛl/ noun, verb

Forms bagatelles bagatelling bagatelled

  1. noun A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
  2. noun (literature, music) A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.
  3. noun (uncountable) A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.
  4. noun (uncountable) Any of several smaller wooden tabletop games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins.
  5. verb (intransitive, rare) To meander or move around, in a manner similar to the ball in the game of bagatelle.
  6. verb (transitive, rare) To bagatellize; to regard as a bagatelle.

Synonyms

bag of shells bric-a-brac dicky dicky-bird fico fig flamfew flyspeck minuity niff-naff picayune scuddick sop ticky-tack toy trick trifle triviality whiffle white chip fluff frippery frivolity bar billiards

Etymology

Borrowed from French bagatelle, from Italian bagattella.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A trifle; a thing of no importance.
  2. noun A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player.

Etymology [F., fr. It. bagatella; cf. Prov. It. bagata trifle, OF. bague, Pr. bagua, bundle. See Bag, n.]

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