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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spit out

verb

Forms spits out spitting out spat out

  1. verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see spit, out. “The cocktail tasted so disgusting that I had to spit it out immediately.”
  2. verb (transitive) To say reluctantly (see also spit it out). “Well, you've obviously got something to say about their relationship, so just spit it out already!”
  3. verb (transitive) To rap; to repeat verses passionately or intensely. “Damn, look at him spitting out these bars!”
  4. verb (transitive) To say scornfully. “"You will die now!", he spat out.”
  5. verb (transitive) To eject. “My computer won't read this DVD. It just keeps spitting it out.”

Synonyms

come out with spit splutter sputter expectorate cough up cough out spit up

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “spit out”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details