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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blackwood

noun, proper noun

Forms blackwoods

  1. noun African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa.
  2. noun Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia.
  3. noun Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India.
  4. noun logwood, bloodwood (Haematoxylum campechianum), a native to southern Mexico.
  5. noun (uncountable) The very dark wood of such trees.
  6. proper noun A hamlet north-east of Loch Carron, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NG9543).
  7. proper noun An outer suburb west of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7274).
  8. proper noun A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7943).
  9. proper noun A town and community in Caerphilly borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1797).
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Gordon County, Georgia.
  11. proper noun A census-designated place in Gloucester Township, Camden County, New Jersey.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Orange County, North Carolina.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community and coal town in Wise County, Virginia.
  14. proper noun (bridge) A bidding convention in contract bridge, used to explore the partnership's possession of aces, kings and in some variants the queen of trumps, to judge more precisely whether slam is likely to be a good contract.

Synonyms

blackwood tree

Etymology

From black + wood.

Developed by Easley Blackwood.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia. Balfour.

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