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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bourbon

/ˈbɜː(ɹ).bən/ noun, proper noun

Forms bourbons

  1. noun A whiskey distilled in the United States from a mixture of grains in which at least 51% is corn, aged in charred, new oak barrels.
  2. noun A serving of bourbon whiskey.
  3. noun A Bourbon biscuit.
  4. proper noun A European dynasty which reigns in Spain and formerly ruled the Kingdom of France.
  5. proper noun A surname from French.
  6. proper noun (historical, Southern US) A Bourbon Democrat.
  7. proper noun (historical, Southern US, especially Mississippi) A white conservative, particularly in the context of opposition to equal rights for black people.
  8. proper noun A county in Kentucky, see Bourbon County.
  9. proper noun A street in New Orleans, Louisiana; in full, Bourbon Street.
  10. proper noun (obsolete) The island of Réunion.
  11. proper noun A town in Indiana.

Synonyms

bourbon and branch bourbon cream Bourbon whiskey Bourbon dynasty

Etymology

From bourbon whiskey, originally Bourbon whiskey, of disputed provenance. Generally taken to derive from Bourbon County, Kentucky, but possibly also from Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Both derive from the French Bourbon dynasty, named for the lordship of French Bourbon l'Archambault. The town's name derives from Borvo, a local Celtic deity associated with hot springs, from Proto-Celtic *borvo (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to be hot, boil”). See also Borvo.

The French Bourbon dynasty is named for the lordship of Bourbon l'Archambault. The town's name derives from Gaulish Borvo, a local Celtic deity associated with hot springs, from Proto-Celtic *borvo (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to be hot, boil”). Compare brew and fervent.
The subsidiary senses derive from the dynasty's name.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.
  2. noun A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.

Etymology [From the castle and seigniory of Bourbon in central France.]

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