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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wrack

/ɹæk/ noun, verb

Forms wracks wracking wracked wrackt wrackest wrackedst wracketh wrake

  1. noun The remains of something; a wreck.
  2. noun (literary, archaic or UK, dialectal) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
  3. noun (archaic except UK, dialectal) Ruin; destruction.
  4. verb (UK dialectal, transitive) To execute vengeance on; avenge.
  5. verb (UK dialectal, transitive) To worry; tease; torment.
  6. noun Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore; flotsam or jetsam.
  7. noun The right to claim such items.
  8. noun Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
  9. noun Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
  10. noun A high, flying cloud; a rack.
  11. verb (transitive, usually passive voice) To wreck, especially a ship.

Synonyms

rack sea wrack bust up wreck

Etymology

From Middle English wrake, wrache, wreche, from a merger of Old English wracu, wræc (“misery, suffering”) and Old English wrǣċ (“vengeance, revenge”). See also wrake.

Late Middle English, from Middle Dutch wrak, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (“to drive out”), the source of wreak and wreck. Doublet of vraic.
Cognate with German Wrack, Old Norse rek, Danish vrag, Swedish vrak, Old English wræc); also compare Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (wrikan), 𐍅𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wrakjan, “persecute”), Old Norse reka (“drive”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
  2. verb To rack; to torment. [R.]
  3. noun Wreck; ruin; destruction. [Obs.] Chaucer. "A world devote to universal wrack." Milton.
  4. noun Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores.

Etymology [OE. wrak wreck. See Wreck.]

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