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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ripper

UK /ˈɹɪpə/ · US /ˈɹɪpɚ/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms rippers the Ripper ripier rippier

  1. noun Something that rips something else.
  2. noun Someone who rips something.
  3. noun A legislative bill or act that transfers powers of appointment from the usual holders to a chief executive or a board of officials.
  4. noun A murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade or similar sharp weapon. “Jack the Ripper”
  5. noun (mining) A hook-like tool used to tear away ore, rock, etc.
  6. noun (mining) A person employed to tear away ore, rock, etc. to make a passage for material to be carried to the surface.
  7. noun (UK, Australia, slang) Something that is an excellent example of its kind.
  8. noun (computing) Software that extracts content from files or storage media.
  9. adjective (UK, Australia, slang) Very good; excellent; fantastic.
  10. noun (obsolete) One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.
  11. proper noun A surname.
  12. noun A vicious murderer
  13. noun A serial killer

Etymology

From rip + -er; originated 1605–15.

Compare rip (“a basket”), or riparian (“relating to a river bank”).

* As an English surname, from Middle English ripier (“basket”), from Old Norse hrip, from Proto-Germanic *hrepaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend”).
* As a Scottish surname, from Middle English reper (“reaper, harvester”) (modern reaper).
* As a German surname, variant of Ripp.

From ripper, from rip+-er

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns. [Obs.]
  2. noun One who, or that which, rips; a ripping tool.
  3. noun A tool for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

Etymology [Cf. Rip a basket, or Riparian.]

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