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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wellington

/ˈwɛlɪŋtən/ proper noun, noun

Forms wellingtons

  1. proper noun The capital city of New Zealand in the Wellington region.
  2. proper noun (metonymic) by extension, the Government of New Zealand.
  3. proper noun A region in the south of the North Island, New Zealand, which includes the capital; in full, Wellington Region.
  4. proper noun A locality in Gosforth parish, Cumberland district, Cumbria, previously in Copeland borough (OS grid ref NY0704).
  5. proper noun A village and civil parish in Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO4948).
  6. proper noun A market town and civil parish with a town council in Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ6511).
  7. proper noun A market town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST1320).
  8. proper noun A town in The Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu, India.
  9. noun (card games) In the game of nap, a bid that results in the bidder winning quadruple, or losing double, the amount staked.
  10. noun (cooking) Meat or other filling baked in a puff pastry.

Synonyms

Beehive Duke of Wellington First Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley Iron Duke capital of New Zealand Hessian boot hessian jackboot Wellington boot

Etymology

# For the place in Shropshire, England: Partly uncertain. The second element from Old English tūn (“estate”), while the first element could come either from *wœling (“ridge, bank”), or else from *wēoling (“device, artefact”).
# For the place in Somerset, England: Partly obscure. The last element from Old English tūn (“estate”), while the first element could come from either the personal name *Wēola + ing, or else *wēoling (“trap”).
# Many places with this name are named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British soldier and statesman.

Generalization from beef Wellington.

Named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, who wore and popularised this style of boot.

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