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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ring out

verb, noun

Forms rings out ringing out rang out rung out ring outs ringed out

  1. verb To sound clearly and loudly. “Suddenly, a shot rang out and someone screamed.”
  2. verb (telephony) To make a phone call from an internal phone system to a general telephone network number. “You can ring out if you dial 9 first and wait for the tone before dialling the number.”
  3. verb (sound engineering) To equalize a sound system to eliminate feedback.
  4. verb (finance) To eliminate the middlemen in a circular pattern of transactions.
  5. noun (video games) A win in a fighting game obtained by throwing one's opponent out of the arena.
  6. verb (video games, ambitransitive) To throw (an opponent) out of the arena, thereby winning.

Etymology

From ring (verb) + out (adverb).

Calque of Japanese リングアウト (ringu auto), equivalent to English ring (noun) + out (verb)

Sources: Wiktionary — from the Wiktionary entry “ring out”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details