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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gabble

/ˈɡæbəl/ verb, noun

Forms gabbles gabbling gabbled

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
  2. verb To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity. “gabbling fowls”
  3. noun Confused or unintelligible speech.

Synonyms

babble jabber jabbering chatter piffle palaver prate tittle-tattle twaddle clack maunder prattle blab gibber tattle blabber

Etymology

From gab + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.
  2. verb To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls.
  3. noun Loud or rapid talk without meaning.
  4. noun Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.

Etymology [Freq. of gab. See Gab, v. i.]

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