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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bother

UK /ˈbɒðə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈbɑðɚ/ verb, noun, interjection

Forms bothers bothering bothered bother!

  1. verb (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for. “Would it bother you if I smoked?”
  2. verb (imperative, euphemistic) Damn; curse.
  3. verb (intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern. “I never bother about such trivialities.”
  4. verb (intransitive, catenative) To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something). “Why do I even bother to try?”
  5. verb To do something which is of negligible inconvenience. “You didn’t even bother to close the door.”
  6. noun Fuss, ado. “There was a bit of bother at the hairdresser's when they couldn't find my appointment in the book.”
  7. noun Trouble, inconvenience. “Yes, I can do that for you—it’s no bother.”
  8. interjection (dated, euphemistic) A mild expression of annoyance.

Synonyms

annoy disturb inconvenience irritate put out vex aggravate nettle rankle ruffle sting burn someone's ass antagonize disgruntle botherate bug get grate burn up bedevil fuss trouble hassle annoyance botheration pain infliction pain in the neck pain in the ass trouble oneself

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots bauther, bather (“to bother”). Origin unknown. Perhaps related to Scots pother (“to make a stir or commotion, bustle”), also of unknown origin. Compare English pother (“to poke, prod”), variant of potter (“to poke”). More at potter. Perhaps related to Irish bodhaire (“noise”), Irish bodhraim (“to deafen, annoy”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
  2. verb To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
  3. noun One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.

Etymology [Cf. Ir. buaidhirt trouble, buaidhrim I vex.]

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