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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braze

/bɹeɪz/ verb, noun

Forms brazes brazing brazed braise braize

  1. verb (transitive) To cover with brass, or as with brass.
  2. verb To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness.
  3. verb (obsolete) To burn or temper in fire.
  4. noun A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore.

Etymology

From Middle English brasen, from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”), from bræs (“brass”).

1580s, "to expose to the action of fire", perhaps from French braser (“to solder, weld”), though the sense evolution is difficult to explain. Perhaps the English word is older, being unrecorded in Middle English but borrowed from Old French braser (“to burn”), which fits the meaning more closely. Old French braser derives from Old Norse brasa (“to braze, harden with fire”). Also possible is that the Middle English and English words were borrowed directly from Old Norse.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe.
  2. verb To harden. "Now I am brazes to it." Shak.
  3. verb To cover or ornament with brass. Chapman.

Etymology [F. braser to solder, fr. Icel. brasa to harden by fire. Cf. Brass.]

Etymology [AS. bræsian, fr. bræs brass. See Brass.]

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