abaft advance, advanced advancement, +s advancing advantage, -s advantaged aft ater ‘after prefixes Aitermath, -s afternoon afterward, +s aghast ‘labaster Alabaster alas (2 in ee) answer, +5 answe-table answe-rably answered answe-rer, 5 answe-ting ask, -s Task newt 2 | asked ARE bos auntie, autograph, -5 avalanche, -s avast bask, -s basked basket, -s basketballs basketful, 5 basketey basket-work bath, «5 bathbrick, -s bath-chair, -s bathcoom, -s behalf blanch, -es Blanche blanched blanching blast, -s @ In Good Speech in classic texts blasted blasting blast-furnace, -s blastment, -s biast-pipe branch, es Branch branched branching branchless brass, -es brass-band, -s brass-founder brass-hat, -s beassie,-s (golf brassier (more brassy) biassiest brassy broadcast, -s calf calPs-foot calfskin calve, -s calved calves'-foot aalveskin,-s calving can't cask, -s casked casket, +5 asking cast, 5 castaway, ‘s caste, -s caster Castelnau casting, -s casting:net, +s casting-vote,-s cast-iron castle, -s Castlebar Castlerea (gh) Castleton castoff,-s castor, 5; Castor castor oil cenotaph,-s THE ASK-LIST a ] worDs “These words have three standards of pronunciation: 2 ,1n General American chaff, chaff-cutter, 5 chaffed chaffer, - (n) (chafier ) 22 1 chaffiness chafing, -ly chaffless chaffy chance, «5 chanced chancel, -s chancelle-tes chancelle. chancellor, -s Chancellor chancellorship, chancer chance-ries chance Chance-y chancier chanciest chancing chancy chandler, -s Chandler chant, -s chanted chanter, -s chantey chanties chanting. Chanteey chantries chantry Chantry chanty clasp, 5 clasped clasping lasp-knife, ves class, -es classed dlassier Classiest classiness classing classman THE FRONT VOWELS/ aT Qt In British ke classmate classmen classroom, -s classwoman classwomen classy command, -s commanded commander, -s commanding ly commandment, -s commando, -s counterblas,-s countermand, -s countermanded countermanding cat -5 crafter crafiest craftly caatiness czafisman, -men “craft” suffixes dak dafter daest atly dafiness dance, -s Dance danced dancer, -s Dancer dancing eathmask, -s demand, demanded demanding disadvantage, -d,-s disaster, -s disastous,-ly disastrousness distaff, -s downcast downdraught, tah, s rated drafter, -s tingTHE ASK-LIST OF WORDS, Cont draftsman, -men flabbergasting aught, -s Flanders “dsaught-” prefixes flask, -s daughter flasket,-s draughtiest forecast, -ed, draughtly forecaster, -$ raughtiness France draughty Frances draughtsman,-men _Francies encephalograph, -s Francis aspen, -s xasping,-ly Eas, es rase-cuter,-s ings grassed gassgreen Easshopper -s Erasslest gassing ‘enchant, -§ feelance, +, -d grass-land enchanted asped, -§ enchanter,-5 feaped enchanting gasping enchantment ghastier enchantress, es shastiest enclasp,-s ghastiness enclasped ghastly enclasping Bitafe, 5 engraft-s glance, -5 engrafted flanced engzatting slancing,-ly engraftment glass, -es srass-widow, -s Brass-widower, -s assy half “halt-” prefixes halve, -§ halved halves enhance, +s glass-blower, -s hasping enhanced slassbiowing enhancement,-s _glass-cuter, 5 enhancing slassful -s ensample,-s slasshouse;-s entrance, -s(v) slassier entranced, -ly Blassiest epigraph,-s Bslassly epitaph, -s slassiness everlasting, -ly slass-paper,-s everlastingness glassware example, 5 slass-work, -s exampled slasowor exampling slassy Falstaff graft -s fast, “graft” suffixes fasted arated faster, -s Brafer,-s fastest grafting fasting Brant fasiness Grant fast-day,-s granted fasten, -§ grantee, -s fastened granting fastener, 6 grantor, -5 fastening graph, -s headmaster, -s hereafter impassable, -bly implant, s, ed indraught, “s lance, -s Lance lanced lance-corpotal, -s lancer, -s lancet, -s Lancet lancing Lancing s last -s lasted lasting -ly lastly lath, -s lather, lathered lathe-ring lathwork lathy laugh, -s fastness, -es "geoph" suffixes laughable ‘fast sufixes Grasmere fl&bbergis, -5 rasp, flabbergasted grasped 827 SPEAK WITH DISTINCTION / CHAI laughableness laughably laughed PTER TWO laugher,-s laughing, -ly laughing: gas laughing-stock, -s laughter mask, 5 masked masking masque, -s mast, 5 master, -$ “master” prefixes master” suffixes mastered masterful, -ly masterfulness mmaste-ring masterpiece, -s mast rmast-head, -s rmastif, (ae. in Re) mischance, -s mooncalf mooncalves nastier nastiest nasty nastiness nasty outcast, -5 outeaste, -s coutcasted outcasting outclass, -es outclassing outlast, -s outlasted outlasting overcast overglance, -d,-s passable, -ness passably pass-book, -s passer, -5 [passer sparrow 2] passer-by passers-byoe ‘THE ASK-LIST OF WORDS, Cont, / passing prancing sampler, -s tasked | pass-key, 5 quaft,-s* sampling tasking passman, -men quaffed * schoolmaster, -5 taskmaster,-s ] Passover, -$ quaffer,-s* shat, -s task-mistess, es passport, -§ quaffing * Shaftesbu-ty telecast, -s : password, -s raf -$ shan't telegraph, -5 past rafed, -s slander, 5 telegraphed pastime, -s rater, -$ slandered telegraphing past-master, raftered slande-rer the-reafter | pastor, 5 rating slande-ring topmast? pasto-al,-s rascal, -s slande-r0us, ty trance, 35 pasto-alism ‘ascalltes slande-rousness teinsplény, -s transplantable | pastorate, -$ rascality slant, Coeaaes fiscally slanted transplanted | pasture,“ 25,5 slanting, 4y teansplantng pastured rasped slantwise teespass, 0s pastu-ing rasping stat, -s tuespassed path, raspberries stafed trespasser, i pathfinder, -s raspbe-ry stating leespassing Pathfinder raspiness stagecraft unstanch pathless spy stanch,-es unsurpassed i pathway, -s rather stanched vpcast 5 } perchance recast -5 stanching vantage, planch, -es recasting stanchion, vast | Planchete,-s repass,-es statecaft vaser } plant, -s repassed steadlas, -ly vastest planted passing steadfastness vastly planter, -s repast, -§ stedfast vastness planting repasture supplant, vasty plasters repsimand, -s supplanted wat -s plastered reprimanded supplanter, wattage plaste-rer, -s ‘reprimanding supplanting wated | plase-ring Salve, -s**(anoind) —surpass,-ed, es. wating | prance, 8 salved ** surpassing, “ly witcherat France’ salving ** ‘af ed, -§ wrath ( ® or 3° in) pranced sample, -§ tating wrath, -ly | prancer,-$ sampled task,-s | | ein Nor Amesiean speech ain Bish RP, “qua ands devaives usually re pronounced ‘for bt chen Inverse mst rhyme with an AskWerd, in which ase thy, oo, become Aske Words + In Bsh RP, “ae” anon soothe) and devas are pronounend: Weeds | For proper names and places not listed above, it is best to check local pronunciation and the dictionaries if you suspect it may be an Ask-Word. In British ge the words on the Ask-List are pronounced with @1 as in “father.” In addition to these words, there are a few words pronounced with: by many British RP speakers, while 2, as in “Pat” is used by other kp speakers as well as virtually all North Americans. With such words, most characters in North American plays will use 22. ; for characters in British plays itis advisable to investigate factors such as regional, class and educational backgrounds, to determine which vow- el sound should be used. Some of these words are: ‘Alexander bastard bastardized bastardy contyast contcasting exaspe-tate exaspe-tating haft canch ancher “trans-" prefixes moustache masquerade ———— eeeeeeessr THE FRONT VOWELS / 83