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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broadway

/ˈbɹɔːdweɪ/ noun, proper noun, adjective

Forms broadways

  1. noun An esplanade.
  2. noun (poker slang) A straight from ace to ten in Texas hold 'em, or any of the cards (ace, king, queen, jack, ten) used to make such a straight.
  3. proper noun A street name, typically for a wide road: a specific broad way.
  4. proper noun A place name for a settlement which grew up around such a road. For example, Broadway, Worcestershire, Broadway, Somerset.
  5. proper noun The wide road which runs diagonally through Manhattan, New York City.
  6. proper noun The theater district of Manhattan.
  7. proper noun The theatres in the Broadway theatre district; especially those covered by contracts between the owners and theatrical unions.
  8. proper noun (metonymic) The American theater industry.
  9. proper noun (Manitoba, metonymic) The government of Manitoba (from the Legislative Building's address, on Broadway).
  10. proper noun A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SP0937).
  11. noun (poker slang) The highest straight in poker, ace-king-queen-jack-ten.
  12. adjective (by extension of the proper noun senses) Flashy; showy. “Since he got the recording contract, he's gone all Broadway.”
  13. adjective (poker slang) Of, or pertaining to, the cards that make up a Broadway straight. “Broadway connectors”

Synonyms

Great White Way

Etymology

From a Middle English antecedent, from an Old English one; by surface analysis, broad + way; more at Broadway.

By surface analysis, a proprialization from broadway. The Old English words "brad weg" have been used to name wide roads and associated settlements, in common noun and proper noun forms, for over a thousand years. Documented examples include Broadway, Somerset and Broadway, Worcestershire, England, which are listed in the Domesday Book census of 1086AD as "Bradewie" and "Bradeweia" respectively.
Sense of “government of Manitoba” is from the address of the Manitoba Legislative Building, on Broadway in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Sources: Wiktionary — from the Wiktionary entry “broadway”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details