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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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

spitter

noun

Forms spitters spittard

  1. noun One who puts meat on a spit.
  2. noun A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp.
  3. noun Someone who spits. “Fines will be issued to spitters who spit wantonly in public.”
  4. noun (vulgar) Someone who spits out semen during oral sex.
  5. noun (hip-hop slang) Rapper, emcee.
  6. noun (herpetology, slang) Synonym of spitting cobra.
  7. noun A small shower (of rain), a spatter.
  8. noun (baseball) Synonym of spitball. “Coach says no throwing any spitters.”
  9. noun An improvised and portable spittoon, typically a beverage bottle repurposed. “with a spitter in the console of his Camaro”

Synonyms

brocket knobber knobbler pricket spitting cobra spitball expectorator

Etymology

From spit (“rod; skewer”) + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who ejects saliva from the mouth.
  2. noun One who puts meat on a spit.
  3. noun A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.

Etymology [See Spit to eject from the mouth.]

Etymology [See Spit an iron prong.]

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