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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rabble

/ˈɹæbəl/ verb, noun

Forms rabbles rabbling rabbled ravel

  1. verb (intransitive) To speak in a confused manner; talk incoherently; utter nonsense
  2. verb (transitive) To speak confusedly or incoherently; gabble or chatter out
  3. noun (obsolete) A bewildered or meaningless string of words.
  4. noun (obsolete) A pack of animals; or any confused collection of things.
  5. noun A mob; a disorderly crowd.
  6. noun (derogatory) The mass of common people; the lowest class of populace.
  7. noun An iron bar used in puddling.
  8. verb (transitive) To stir with a rabble.

Synonyms

rout plebs riffraff canaille commonality commonalty crowd commonage demos everyone general public great unhosed great unwashed herd hoi polloi lower class many masses mob multitude ragtag ragtag and bobtail

Etymology

First attested since 1300s, from Middle English rablen (“to ramble; rave; speak in a confused manner”), cognate with Middle Dutch rabbelen (“to talk; chatter; trifle”), Low German rabbeln, robbeln (“to chatter; prattle”).

From Middle English rabel, probably from the verb (see above).

From Old French roable (modern French râble), from Latin rutabulum (“a poker”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar. [R.] Dryden.
  3. noun A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.
  4. noun A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.

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