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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quitter

/ˈkwɪ.tə/ noun, verb

Forms quitters quittering quittered quittor quitture

  1. noun (now rare outside Jamaica) Matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus.
  2. noun (obsolete) Scoria of tin.
  3. verb To suppurate; ooze with pus.
  4. noun One who gives in. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
  5. noun One who succeeds in desisting from a vice, especially smoking, drinking, or drugging. “Quitters are winners! If you can't quit on the first try, hang in there and try to quit again!”
  6. noun (archaic) A leaver.
  7. noun (obsolete) A deliverer.

Synonyms

giver-upper

Etymology

From Middle English quitter, from Anglo-Norman quiture, quyture et al., specialised use of quiture (“burn mark, burning”), from the participle stem of cuire (“to cook”), or from Latin coctura (“cooking”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who quits.
  2. noun A deliverer. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

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