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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walkaway

noun, proper noun

Forms walkaways walk-away

  1. noun A case of a person walking away (e.g. an inmate from a facility, a cult member from a community); a person who walks away. “There had been several walkaways from the juvenile center.”
  2. noun (US) An easy victory; a very unequal contest (also used attributively). “The upcoming election is unlikely to be a walkaway for the encumbent.”
  3. noun A business termination in which the entrepreneur winds up the business with its obligations met.
  4. noun (real estate) A property that has been abandoned when the mortgager failed to make their payments, while the mortgagee has abandoned its foreclosure action to avoid the costs associated with ownership.
  5. noun In a negotiation, the terms representing the least a party is willing to accept (also used attributively). “walkaway price; walkaway point”
  6. noun (US) A vehicle lease under which the lessee is not responsible for the value of the vehicle at the end of the lease period.
  7. noun (US, attributively, of a food or drink) Intended to be consumed while walking.
  8. noun (US) A kind of sweet pastry containing cream cheese.
  9. proper noun A small town in the City of Greater Geraldton, Western Australia.

Synonyms

walkover bottom line closed-end lease catwalk hand-over-hand stamp-and-go runaway blowout romp laugher shoo-in

Etymology

Deverbal from walk away.

A corruption of an Aborigine term, wagga wah.

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