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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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jasper

UK /ˈd͡ʒæs.pə/ · US /ˈd͡ʒæs.pɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of Caspar

Forms jaspers jaspering jaspered Caspar Gaspar Casper Kaspar Kasper Kosper Cosper Gosper

  1. noun (obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
  2. noun An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
  3. noun Jasperware pottery.
  4. verb (transitive) To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.
  5. noun (UK, West Country, Somerset, colloquial) A wasp.
  6. noun (US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
  7. noun (Appalachia) A stranger.
  8. proper noun A male given name from Old Persian.
  9. proper noun A surname.
  10. proper noun One of the Magi, also known as Caspar.
  11. proper noun A town in Alberta, Canada.
  12. proper noun A city, the county seat of Walker County, Alabama.
  13. proper noun A small city, the county seat of Newton County, Arkansas.
  14. proper noun A city, the county seat of Hamilton County, Florida.
  15. proper noun A city, the county seat of Pickens County, Georgia.

Synonyms

County of Jasper Township of Jasper

Etymology

From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).

From the male personal name Jasper.

A name given to one of the Magi in a medieval European cult, from Biblical Hebrew גִּזְבָּר (gizbar), ultimately from Old Median *ganǰabarah; see it for more.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped or banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper. Jasper opal, a yellow variety of opal resembling jasper.

Etymology [OE. jaspre, jaspe, OF. jaspre, jaspe, F. jaspe, L. iaspis, Gr. yashp, yashf, Ar.yashb, yasb, yasf, Heb. yashpheh. Cf. Diaper.]

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