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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bilge

/bɪld͡ʒ/ noun, verb

Forms bilges bilging bilged

  1. noun (nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
  2. noun (nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.
  3. noun (uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.
  4. noun (slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense. “talk bilge”
  5. noun The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
  6. verb (nautical, intransitive) To spring a leak in the bilge.
  7. verb (intransitive) To bulge or swell.
  8. verb (nautical, transitive) To break open the bilge(s) of.

Synonyms

bilge water take in water

Etymology

Likely derived from bulge. Compare Middle English bulgen (“to ground or scuttle a ship”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
  2. noun That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.
  3. verb To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.
  4. verb To bulge.

Etymology [A different orthography of bulge, of same origin as belly. Cf. Belly, Bulge.]

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