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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bib

/bɪb/ noun, verb

Forms bibs bibbing bibbed

  1. noun An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.
  2. noun Similar items of clothing such as the Chinese dudou and Vietnamese yem.
  3. noun (sports) A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by competitors.
  4. noun (sports) A colourful polyester or plastic vest worn over one's clothes, usually to mark one's team during group activities.
  5. noun The upper part of an apron or overalls.
  6. noun A patch of colour around an animal's upper breast and throat.
  7. noun A north Atlantic fish (Trisopterus luscus), allied to the cod.
  8. noun A bibb (bibcock).
  9. verb (transitive) To dress (somebody) in a bib.
  10. verb (intransitive, archaic) To drink heartily; to tipple.
  11. verb (informal) To beep (e.g. a car horn).

Synonyms

pinny pouting tipple

Etymology

Originally verb sense “drink heartily”, from Middle English bibben, either from Latin bibō (“to drink”) or of imitative origin. Noun sense (clothing) presumably either because worn while drinking, or because the clothing itself “drinks up” spills.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.
  2. noun An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; --called also pout and whiting pout.
  3. verb To drink; to tipple. [Obs.]
  4. verb To drink; to sip; to tipple.

Etymology [From Bib, v., because the bib receives the drink that the child slavers from the mouth.]

Etymology [L. bibere. See Beverage, and cf. Imbibe.]

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