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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simmer

UK /ˈsɪmə/ · US /ˈsɪmɚ/ verb, noun, proper noun

Also a form of summer

Forms simmers simmering simmered simber

  1. verb (intransitive) To cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point. “The soup simmered on the stove.”
  2. verb (transitive) To cause to cook or to cause to undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point. “Simmer the soup for five minutes, then serve.”
  3. verb (intransitive, figurative) To be on the point of breaking out into anger; to be agitated.
  4. verb (intransitive, figurative) To remain angry with someone or something past the point of exhaustion; to resign oneself to holding a grudge, especially after some failed attempts to resolve a situation. “I tried to get through to him; all that's left for me to do is simmer.”
  5. verb (intransitive, figurative) To develop gradually, of an idea or plan.
  6. noun The state or process of simmering. “The kettle was kept on the simmer.”
  7. noun (informal, video games) Someone who plays a sim (a simulation game), particularly The Sims.
  8. noun (slang, video games) A fan of the video game series The Sims.
  9. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

coddle gestate ferment

Etymology

From alteration of dialectal simper, from Middle English simperen (“to simmer”), of possibly imitative origin. First attested in the intransitive sense. The noun is from the verb. First attested in the late 15ᵗʰ century.

From sim (“simulation”, noun) + -er.

From Sim + -er.

Borrowed from German Simmer or a variant of Summer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil.
  2. verb To cause to boil gently; to cook in liquid heated almost or just to the boiling point.

Etymology [Prov. E. also simper; -- an onomatopoetic word.]

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