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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boomer

UK /ˈbuː.mə/ · US /ˈbu.mɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms boomers

  1. noun Something that makes a booming sound.
  2. noun A device used to bind or tighten chain.
  3. noun (US, nautical, military, slang) A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.
  4. noun (UK) A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae spp.).
  5. noun An adult male kangaroo.
  6. noun (Appalachia) A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
  7. noun A sewellel (Aplodontia rufa).
  8. noun (realtime strategy games) A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence.
  9. noun (informal) A baby boomer. “Boomers came of age in the era of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin.”
  10. noun (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) An elderly person, regardless of generation. “I'm going to be a boomer by the time this thing is over.”
  11. noun (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology. “I'm such a boomer; I have no idea how to use this phone.”
  12. proper noun A surname.
  13. noun (US, historical) A member of a 19th century movement which campaigned for the opening of "Unassigned Lands" within the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) for settlement.

Synonyms

chain binder mountain beaver chehalis antiquity codger gadgie gaffer geezer gramps greybeard old codger old fart old man unc whitebeard baby boomer

Antonyms

doomer

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, booms.
  2. noun A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel.

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