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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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drib

/ˈdɹɪb/ verb, noun

Forms dribs dribbing dribbed

  1. verb (transitive) To cut off; chop off.
  2. verb (transitive) To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
  3. verb (transitive) To entice step by step.
  4. verb To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
  5. verb (transitive, archery) To shoot directly at short range.
  6. verb (intransitive, archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.
  7. verb (transitive, archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
  8. verb (transitive, now chiefly UK, dialectal) To beat; thrash; drub.
  9. noun (obsolete) A drop.

Synonyms

drop driblet

Etymology

From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from Middle English drepen (“to hit, strike, slay”), from Old English drepan (“to strike, kill, overcome”), from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to hit, strike”).

From a variant of drip.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To do by little and little; as: (a) To cut off by a little at a time; to crop.
  2. verb To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
  3. noun A drop. [Obs.] Swift.

Etymology [Cf. Drip.]

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