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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snippet

/ˈsnɪpɪt/ noun, verb

Forms snippets snippeting snippetting snippeted snippetted

  1. noun A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample. “From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.”
  2. noun (computing) A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase.
  3. verb (transitive, often computing) To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt. “We snippeted the blog posts for display on the home page.”
  4. verb To make small cuts, to snip, particularly with scissors.

Synonyms

excerpt cutting bit chip chunk tranche clip crumb crumbling flake fleak fragment hunk lump mammock ort piece piecemeal portion scrap snip snipping

Etymology

From snip + -et. Compare snippock.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small part or piece.

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