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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blackfish

/ˈblakfɪʃ/ noun, verb

Forms blackfishes blackfishing blackfished

  1. noun (chiefly Scotland) An Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
  2. noun Any of various dark-colored fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).
  3. noun The pilot whale (Globicephalus spp.).
  4. noun The killer whale (Orcinus orca).
  5. noun (Canada, US) Either of two dark-colored fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
  6. noun (Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-colored fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick (Girella tricuspidata), and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
  7. verb (fishing) To go fishing for blackfish.
  8. verb (Internet slang, derogatory, of a non-black person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).

Synonyms

tautog Tautoga onitis pilot whale black whale common blackfish Globicephala melaena

Etymology

From black + fish.

Blend of black + catfish (“(to create) a fake online profile”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.
  2. noun The tautog of New England (Tautoga).

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