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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bungle

/ˈbʌŋɡ(ə)l/ verb, noun

Forms bungles bungling bungled

  1. verb (transitive) To incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action; to botch up, to bumble.
  2. verb (intransitive) To act or work incompetently; to fumble.
  3. noun A botched or incompetently handled action or situation; a blunder.

Synonyms

botch mishandle ball up blight bumble bugger up contaminate corrupt crab deprave disrupt disturb foil fuck up jack up mar mess up mommick pollute put a crimp in blunder blooper bloomer pratfall foul-up fuckup flub boner boo-boo bodge

Etymology

The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is either:
* onomatopoeic in origin (compare bumble (“to act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes”), fumble (“to grope awkwardly in trying to find something; to blunder uncertainly”)); or
* from Old Norse; compare Old Swedish bunga (“to strike”), and dialectal Swedish bangla (“to work ineffectually”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
* German Bengel (“cudgel; rude fellow”)
* Middle High German bungen (“to hammer”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
  2. verb To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; --sometimes with up. I always had an idea that it would be bungled. Byron.
  3. noun A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.

Etymology [Prob. a diminutive from, akin to bang; cf. Prov. G. bungen to beat, bang, OSw. bunga. See Bang.]

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