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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wheelhouse

UK /ˈwiːlˌhaʊs/ · US /ˈwilˌhaʊs/ noun, proper noun

Forms wheelhouses wheel house wheel-house

  1. noun A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.
  2. noun The partially enclosed structure above and around a wheel of an automobile, typically partly formed by a portion of a fender panel that has been extended outward beyond the plane of the rest of the panel.
  3. noun An enclosed compartment on the deck of a vessel such as a fishing boat, originally housing its helm or steering wheel, from which it may be navigated; on a larger vessel it is the bridge.
  4. noun The enclosed structure around the paddlewheel of a steamboat.
  5. noun (archaeology) A prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland, characteristically including an outer wall within which a circle of stone piers (resembling the spokes of a wheel) form the basis for lintel arches supporting corbelled roofing with a hearth at the hub.
  6. noun (Canada, US, baseball, by extension from sense 1.2) A pitch location which is favourable to the hitter. “The pitch was right in his wheelhouse, and he hit a grand slam.”
  7. noun (Canada, US, figuratively) A person's area of authority or expertise. “Horse viruses are in Pat’s wheelhouse.”
  8. noun (Canada, US, figuratively) A set of skills necessitated by a situation. “Ever since I started taking antipsychotics, managing my mental health has been a whole different wheelhouse.”
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

wheel arch wheel well pilothouse paddle box bailiwick domain

Etymology

From wheel + house. Sense 3 (“(baseball) a pitch location which is favourable to the hitter”) references the fact that a vessel is controlled from its wheelhouse (sense 1.2), and sense 4 (“a person’s area of authority or expertise”) is a figurative use of sense 3.

Sources: Wiktionary — from the Wiktionary entry “wheelhouse”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details