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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blackout

/ˈblæk.aʊt/ noun

Forms blackouts blackouting blackouted black-out

  1. noun A temporary loss of consciousness.
  2. noun A temporary loss of memory.
  3. noun A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
  4. noun An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one. “media blackout”
  5. noun (Internet) An intentional outage of a website or other online service, typically as a form of protest. “the 2012 English Wikipedia blackout”
  6. noun (historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
  7. noun (attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible. “blackout blinds; blackout curtains”
  8. noun (slang, criminology, rare) A mass murder committed, usually in an urban area, to eliminate potential witnesses of a previous crime.

Synonyms

blankout faint syncope power cut outage brownout dimout amnesia memory loss

Etymology

Deverbal from black out.

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