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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fizzle

/ˈfɪzəl/ verb, noun

Forms fizzles fizzling fizzled

  1. verb To sputter or hiss. “The soda fizzled for several minutes after it was poured.”
  2. verb (figuratively, informal) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped. “The entire project fizzled after the founder quit.”
  3. verb (military, of a nuclear weapon) To fail to generate the expected yield when exploded during testing. “The shot fizzled, generating only 200 tons rather than the 30 kilotons they were aiming for.”
  4. noun A spluttering or hissing sound.
  5. noun (military) Failure of an exploding nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing.
  6. noun An abortive effort; a flop or dud.
  7. noun A state of agitation or worry.

Synonyms

hiss hissing hushing sibilation flop bust taper off peter out fizzle out

Etymology

Attested in English since 1525-35. From earlier fysel (“to fart”). Related to fīsa (“to fart”). Compare with Swedish fisa (“to fart (silently)”). See also feist.
It could also come from old Norse: "fise" simply means "blow," like in "blow in the wind." A weather-exposed community in Rogaland, Norway, is called Fister. (In modern language, the verb "fisle" has the same 3 meanings as in English, see below.)

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make a hissing sound.
  2. verb To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking. [Colloq. or Low]
  3. noun A failure or abortive effort. [Colloq.]

Etymology [See Fizz.]

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