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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blench

/blɛnt͡ʃ/ verb, noun

Forms blenches blenching blenched

  1. verb (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
  2. verb (intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
  3. verb (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
  4. verb (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
  5. verb (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
  6. verb (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
  7. noun A deceit; a trick.
  8. noun A sidelong glance.
  9. verb (obsolete) To blanch.

Synonyms

pale blanch

Etymology

From Middle English blench (noun) and blenchen (verb), from Old English blenċan (“to deceive, cheat”), from Proto-West Germanic *blankijan, from Proto-Germanic *blankijaną (“to deceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-. Cognate with Icelandic blekkja (“to deceive, cheat, impose upon”).

Variant of blanch, from Middle English blanchen, blaunchen, from Old French blanchir (“to whiten, bleach”), from blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin; compare Middle English blenchen (“to turn pale", also "to flinch; deceive”), from Old English blenċan. More at blank.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
  2. verb To fly off; to turn aside. [Obs.]
  3. verb To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; --also, to obstruct; to hinder. [Obs.]
  4. verb To draw back from; to deny from fear. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. blenchen to blench, elude, deceive, AS. blencan to deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of blink to make to wink, to deceive. See Blink, and cf. 3d Blanch.]

Etymology [See 1st Blanch.]

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