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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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scuttle

/ˈskʌt.l̩/ noun, verb

Forms scuttles scuttling scuttled skuttle

  1. noun A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
  2. noun A broad, shallow basket.
  3. noun (obsolete, Northern England and Scotland) A dish, platter or a trencher.
  4. noun A small hatch or opening in a boat, sometimes one used for draining water from open deck.
  5. noun (automotive) A drained trough between the windscreen and bonnet of a motor vehicle, forming the intake to the heating/air-conditioning system, often also containing the windscreen wiper motor.
  6. noun (automotive) By extension, the bulkhead at the front of the passenger compartment.
  7. noun (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
  8. verb (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
  9. verb (transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander or owner. “The Vichy French fleet in Toulon in 1942 scuttled itself as a final "fuck you" to the invading Germans.”
  10. verb (transitive, by extension) To deliberately wreck one's vehicle (of any sort).
  11. verb (transitive, by extension) To undermine or thwart oneself or one's position or property, especially deliberately. “The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst.”
  12. verb (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
  13. noun A quick pace; a short run.

Synonyms

roof hatch cowl destroy wreck coal scuttle hatchway opening scurry scamper skitter

Etymology

From Middle English scuttel, scutel, from Old English scutel (“dish, platter”), from Latin scutella, diminutive form of Latin scutra (“flat tray, dish”), perhaps related to Latin scutum (“shield”); compare Dutch schotel and German Schüssel.

Borrowed from Middle French escoutille (compare French écoutille), from Old Norse skaut (“corner of a cloth, of a sail”), or alternatively from Spanish escotilla, ultimately from Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍄𐍃 (skauts, “projecting edge, fringe”), from Proto-Germanic *skautaz (“corner; wedge; lap”). Compare German Schoß, Old English sċēat. More at sheet.

See scuddle.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A broad, shallow basket.
  2. noun A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
  3. verb To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.
  4. noun A quick pace; a short run. Spectator.

Etymology [AS. scutel a dish, platter; cf. Icel. skutill; both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. scutum a shield. Cf. Skillet.]

Etymology [For scuddle, fr. scud.]

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