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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breech

/ˈbɹiːt͡ʃ/ noun, adverb, adjective, verb

Also a form of breeches

Forms breeches breeching breeched

  1. noun (historical, now only in the plural or attributive) A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks.
  2. noun (now rare) The buttocks or backside.
  3. noun (firearms) The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.
  4. noun (nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
  5. noun (obstetrics) A breech birth.
  6. adverb (obstetrics, of birth) With the hips coming out before the head.
  7. adjective (obstetrics) Born, or having been born, breech.
  8. verb (dated, transitive) To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time (the breeching ceremony).
  9. verb (dated, transitive) To beat or spank on the buttocks.
  10. verb (transitive) To fit or furnish with a breech. “to breech a gun”
  11. verb (transitive) To fasten with breeching.
  12. verb (poetic, transitive, obsolete) To cover as if with breeches.

Synonyms

rear of barrel rear of tube

Etymology

From Middle English breche, from Old English brēċ, from Proto-Germanic *brōkiz pl, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“clothing for loins and thighs”). Cognate with Dutch broek, Alemannic German Bruech, Swedish brok. Doublet of vraka.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.
  2. noun Breeches. [Obs.] Shak.
  3. verb To put into, or clothe with, breeches.
  4. verb To cover as with breeches. [Poetic]

Etymology [See Breeches.]

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