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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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skewer

UK /ˈskjuː.ə/ · US /ˈskjuː.ɚ/ noun, verb

Also a form of skew

Forms the bishop can capture the white queen. skewers skewering skewered

  1. noun A long pin, normally made of metal or wood, used to secure food during cooking.
  2. noun Food served on a skewer.
  3. noun (chess) A scenario in which a piece attacks a more valuable piece which, if it moves aside, exposes a less valuable piece.
  4. verb To impale on a skewer.
  5. verb (chess) To attack a piece which has a less valuable piece behind it.
  6. verb (figurative) To severely mock or discredit.
  7. noun (rare) That which skews something.

Synonyms

brochette spit

Etymology

From Middle English skeuier, skuer, likely a variant of Middle English *skever, *skiver (compare Modern English skiver), probably of North Germanic origin, compare Icelandic skífa (“to slice”), Norwegian skive, Swedish skiva, Swedish skifer (“a slate”).

From skew + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A pin of wood or metal for fastening meat to a spit, or for keeping it in form while roasting.
  2. verb To fasten with skewers.

Etymology [Probably of Scand, origin; cf. Sw. & Dan. skifer a slate. Cf. Shuver a fragment.]

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