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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scribble

/ˈskɹɪbəl/ verb, noun

Forms scribbles scribbling scribbled

  1. verb (ambitransitive) To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry. “I suddenly remembered I needed to buy bleach, so scribbled it down on my shopping list.”
  2. verb To doodle.
  3. verb To write badly; to work as an inferior author or journalist.
  4. noun Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing
  5. verb (obsolete, transitive) To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.

Synonyms

scrabble scrawl doodle squiggle scratch cacography

Etymology

From Middle English scriblen, from (1) scrīben + -le and/or (2) Latin scrībillō (found in conscrībillō), from cōnscrībō, from scrībō (“write”), equivalent to scribe + -le (frequentative suffix).

From Dutch schribbelen (“to scratch”), from Middle Dutch schrobben (“to scrub, scrape, scratch”), variant of schrapen, schrappen. Related to scrub.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To card coarsely; to run through the scribling machine.
  2. verb To write hastily or carelessly, without regard to correctness or elegance; as, to scribble a letter.
  3. verb To fill or cover with careless or worthless writing.
  4. verb To write without care, elegance, or value; to scrawl.

Etymology [Cf. Scrabble.]

Etymology [From Scrible.]

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