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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wont

/wʌnt/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms wonts wonting wonted

  1. noun (archaic or humorous) One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice. “He awoke at the crack of dawn, as was his wont.”
  2. adjective Accustomed or used (to or with a thing), accustomed or apt (to do something). “He is wont to complain loudly about his job.”
  3. verb (transitive, archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.
  4. verb (intransitive, archaic) To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something).

Synonyms

wone habit routine ritual disposed fain prone apt bain forward inclined liable minded ready predisposed propense

Etymology

From Middle English wont, from Old English ġewunod, past participle of ġewunian (“to be accustomed to, dwell”), the noun sense possibly arising via conflation of wone (“custom, habit, practice”) and the adjective wont.
Compare German Low German Gewohnte (“custom, habit”), Dutch gewoonte, Swedish van. Likely related to wone, wonder, wean, and win.

From Middle English wont, iwoned, from Old English ġewunod, past participle of ġewunian. Cognate with German gewohnt and Dutch gewend.

From Middle English wonten (“to accustom”), from wont (adjective). See above.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used. "As he was wont to go." Chaucer.
  2. noun Custom; habit; use; usage.
  3. verb To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.
  4. verb To accustom; --used reflexively.

Etymology [For woned, p. p. of won, wone, to dwell, AS. wunian; akin to D. wonen, OS. wun, OHG, won, G. wohnen, and AS. wund, gewuna, custom, habit; orig. probably, to take pleasure; cf. Icel. una to dwell, to enjoy, Goth. wunan to rejoice (in unwunands sad); and akin to Skr. van to like, to wish. Wean, Win.]

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