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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blare

UK /blɛə/ · US /blɛ(ə)ɹ/ verb, noun

Forms blares blaring blared blear blair bleir

  1. verb (Often followed by out) To play (a radio, recorded music, etc.) at extremely loud volume levels.
  2. verb (figuratively) To express (ideas, words, etc.) loudly; to proclaim.
  3. verb To make a loud sound, especially like a trumpet. “The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.”
  4. verb (archaic except UK, dialectal) To make a lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.
  5. noun A loud sound. “I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio.”
  6. noun (figurative) Of colour, light, or some other quality: dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
  7. noun (obsolete except UK, dialectal) A lengthy sound, as of a person crying or an animal bellowing or roaring.

Synonyms

blaring cacophony clamor din blast honk beep claxon toot

Etymology

The verb is derived from Late Middle English blaren, bleren, bloren (“to bellow, cry, wail; of a goat: to bleat”), probably from Old English *blǣran, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to bleat, cry”) and ultimately imitative. Related to Middle Dutch blaren, bleren (“to bawl, cry; to shout; to bleat”) (modern Dutch blèren).
The noun is derived from the verb.
German Low German blaren, blarren
Middle High German blêren, blerren (modern German plärren)

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To sound loudly and somewhat harshly. "The trumpet blared." Tennyson.
  2. verb To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.
  3. noun The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.

Etymology [OE. blaren, bloren, to cry, woop; cf. G. plärren to bleat, D. blaren to bleat, cry, weep. Prob. an imitative word, but cf. also E. blast. Cf. Blore.]

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