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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skipper

UK /ˈskɪp.ə/ · US /ˈskɪp.ɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms skippers skippering skippered skip

  1. noun (nautical) The master of a ship.
  2. noun A coach, director, or other leader.
  3. noun (sports) The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.
  4. noun (UK, law enforcement, informal) Synonym of detective sergeant, especially as a term of direct address.
  5. verb (transitive) To captain a ship or a sports team.
  6. noun A person who skips, or fails to attend class.
  7. noun (sports) One who jumps rope.
  8. noun Any of various butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and its subfamily Megathyminae, having a hairy mothlike body, hooked tips on the antennae, and a darting flight pattern.
  9. noun Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira (Pacific saury) and Sprattus sprattus (European sprat).
  10. noun (obsolete) A young, thoughtless person.
  11. noun The cheese maggot, the larva of a cheese fly (family Piophilidae), which leaps to escape predators.
  12. noun A barn or shed in which to shelter for the night.
  13. verb (intransitive) To take shelter in a barn or shed.
  14. noun (South Africa) A short-sleeved (or long-sleeved) tee-shirt, or sweatshirt.
  15. proper noun A surname.
  16. proper noun A male given name.

Synonyms

master captain detective sergeant jumper tee-shirt sea captain

Etymology

From Middle English skippere, skyppere, scippere, borrowed from Middle Dutch scipper, schipper, from Old Dutch *skipāri, from Proto-Germanic *skipārijaz. Piecewise doublet of shipper, from ship + -er.

From Middle English skippere, skyppare, equivalent to skip + -er.

Probably from Welsh ysgubor (“a barn”).

Unknown, perhaps related to jumper.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, skips.
  2. noun A young, thoughtless person. Shak.
  3. noun The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.
  4. noun A ship boy. [Obs.] Congreve.

Etymology [D. schipper. See Shipper, and Ship.]

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