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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

bluster

UK /ˈblʌs.tə/ · US /ˈblʌs.tɚ/ noun, verb

Forms blusters blustering blustered

  1. noun Pompous, officious talk.
  2. noun A gust of wind.
  3. noun Fitful noise and violence.
  4. verb To speak or protest loudly. “When confronted by opposition his reaction was to bluster, which often cowed the meek.”
  5. verb To act or speak in an unduly threatening manner.
  6. verb To blow in strong or sudden gusts (refers to winds).

Synonyms

bombast bravado braggadocio rodomontade rhodomontade boast tout swash shoot a line brag gas blow vaunt gasconade swagger

Etymology

From Middle English blusteren (“to wander about aimlessly”); however, apparently picking up the modern sense from Middle Low German blüstren (“to blow violently”; compare later Low German blustern, blistern). Related to blow, blast. Compare also Saterland Frisian bloasje (“to blow”), bruusje (“to bluster”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
  2. verb To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage.
  3. verb To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully.
  4. noun Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.

Etymology [Allied to blast.]

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