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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blat

/blæt/ verb, noun

Forms blats blatting blatted blatt

  1. verb (intransitive) To cry, as a calf, sheep, or goat.
  2. verb (intransitive) To make a senseless noise.
  3. verb To talk inconsiderately; blab.
  4. verb To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba.
  5. verb (transitive) To utter loudly or foolishly; blurt.
  6. noun (US, slang) A newspaper.
  7. noun The Soviet system of connections and social relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society). “To open a new business in Russia you need blat.”

Synonyms

bleat baa guanxi blate

Etymology

Imitative. First attested in 1846 in the intransitive sense of "bleat". Compare English bleat, Old English blǣtan (“to bleat”).

Borrowed from German Blatt (“newspaper”). Doublet of blade.

Borrowed from Russian блат (blat), from Polish blat (“cover, umbrella”) or Yiddish בלאַט (blat, “leaf, list”). Doublet of blade.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately. [Low]
  2. verb To utter inconsiderately. [Low]

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