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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

shuffle

/ˈʃʌfəl/ noun, verb

Forms shuffles shuffling shuffled

  1. noun The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them. “He made a real mess of the last shuffle.”
  2. noun The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
  3. noun An instance of walking without lifting one's feet. “The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.”
  4. noun (by extension, music) A rhythm commonly used in blues music, consisting of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note, and suggests a walker dragging one foot.
  5. noun (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
  6. noun A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
  7. verb (ambitransitive) To put in a random order. “Don't forget to shuffle the cards.”
  8. verb To change; modify the order of something.
  9. verb (ambitransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. “He shuffled out of the room.”
  10. verb To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
  11. verb To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
  12. verb To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another. “to shuffle money from hand to hand”
  13. verb To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

Synonyms

shamble scuff shuffling make shambling scuffle ruffle mix

Etymology

Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
  2. verb To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack.
  3. verb To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
  4. verb To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

Etymology [Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a freq. of shove. See Shove, and Scuffle.]

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