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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squabble

UK /ˈskwɒbəl/ · US /ˈskwɑːbəl/ noun, verb

Forms squabbles squabbling squabbled

  1. noun A minor fight or argument. “The children got into a squabble about who should ride in the front of the car.”
  2. noun (collective) A group of seagulls.
  3. verb (intransitive) To participate in a minor fight or argument; to quarrel. “The brothers were always squabbling with each other.”
  4. verb (transitive, printing) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment. “to squabble type”

Synonyms

barney bicker quarrel wrangle argue tiff tift quibble row pettifog bickering spat pettifoggery fuss niggle brabble

Etymology

The noun form first appears c. 1602, while the verbal form first appears c. 1616. Probably of North Germanic origin and ultimately imitative.
Related to Swedish dialectal skvabbel (“a dispute, quarrel, gossip”), Norwegian dialectal skvabba (“to prattle”), German dialectal schwabbeln (“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal skvappa (“to chide, scold”, literally “make a splash”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.
  2. verb To debate peevishly; to dispute.
  3. verb To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment; --said of type that has been set up.
  4. noun A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.

Etymology [Cf. dial. Sw. skvabbel a dispute, skvappa to chide.]

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