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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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skimp

/ˈskɪmp/ verb, adjective, noun

Forms skimps skimping skimped

  1. verb (Scotland, Northern England) To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of. “I thought Adie was only skimpin' me.”
  2. verb (transitive) To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
  3. verb To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
  4. verb (intransitive) To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
  5. adjective (dated, UK, dialect or US, colloquial) Scanty.
  6. noun A skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing.
  7. noun (in the plural, colloquial) Underwear.

Synonyms

scant scrimp stint

Etymology

Perhaps of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skimpijaną (“to skip, dance, gesture, mock”). Cognate with Icelandic skimpa (“to scoff at, scorn”), dialectal Swedish skimpa (“to skip, dance”), Faroese skumpa (“to shove, bump”), German schimpfen (“to grumble, scold”), Dutch schimpen (“to mock, make fun of, scold”). Possibly distantly related to change.

Probably related to scamp and scrimp.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
  2. verb To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp. [Prov.
  3. verb To save; to be parsimonious or niggardly. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq.
  4. adjective Scanty. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]

Etymology [Cf. Skinch, Scamp, v. t.]

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