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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tweet

/ˈtwiːt/ noun, verb, interjection, proper noun

Forms tweets tweeting tweeted

  1. noun The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
  2. noun (social media) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
  3. noun (social media, by extension) An entry on any microblogging service.
  4. verb (intransitive) To produce a short high-pitched sound, similar to that of certain birds.
  5. verb (ambitransitive, social media) To post an entry to Twitter.
  6. verb (ambitransitive, social media, by extension) To post an entry to any microblogging site.
  7. interjection used to represent the sound of a bird twittering: twit.
  8. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

twirp pinch squeeze twinge nip twitch

Etymology

Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).

Americanized spelling of either Norwegian Tveit or North German Twiete.

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