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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jumble

/ˈd͡ʒʌmbəl/ verb, noun

Forms jumbles jumbling jumbled jumbal jumball

  1. verb (transitive) To mix or confuse.
  2. verb (intransitive) To meet or unite in a confused way. “I tried to study, but in my half-awake state, all of the concepts seemed to jumble together.”
  3. noun A mixture of often unrelated things. “My thoughts were all in a jumble.”
  4. noun (uncountable, UK) Items for a rummage sale.
  5. noun (countable, UK, informal) A rummage sale.
  6. noun (archaic) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.

Synonyms

clutter muddle fuddle mare's nest welter smother jumbal patchwork hodgepodge mingle confuse mix up scramble throw together

Etymology

From Middle English jumbelen, alteration of jumbren, jombren, a variant of jumpren, frequentative of jumpen (“to jump”), equal to jump + -le. More at jumber, jump, jumper.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; --often followed by together or up. Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together Burton.
  2. verb To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly. Swift.
  3. noun A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words.
  4. noun A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.

Etymology [Prob. fr. jump, i. e., to make to jump, or shake.]

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