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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tweedle

/ˈtwiːdəl/ verb, noun

Forms tweedles tweedling tweedled twidle

  1. verb (transitive, obsolete) To handle lightly; said with reference to awkward playing on a fiddle.
  2. verb (transitive, obsolete, by extension) To influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.
  3. verb To twiddle.
  4. verb (UK, slang) To sell fake jewellery as genuine.
  5. verb To make a shrill or trilling sound
  6. verb To say in a high-pitched voice.
  7. verb To trifle or play.
  8. verb To go; to proceed without much enthusiasm.
  9. noun A sound of the kind made by a fiddle.
  10. noun (UK, slang) A confidence trick in which fake jewellery is sold as genuine.

Synonyms

beguile cajole wheedle allure arrest attract becharm bewitch beckon captivate charm court delight draw effascinate enchant engage enthrall entrance enrapture chirp

Etymology

said to be imitative, probably influenced by wheedle. Compare teedle, toodle, twiddle

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To handle lightly; --said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.
  2. verb To twist. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Etymology [Cf. Twiddle.]

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