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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bulkhead

/ˈbʌlk.hɛd/ noun

Forms bulkheads

  1. noun (nautical) A vertical partition dividing the hull into separate compartments; often made watertight to prevent excessive flooding if the ship's hull is breached.
  2. noun (aerospace, rail transport) A similar partition in an aircraft or spacecraft, or some rail vehicles.
  3. noun (mechanics) A partition or panel through which connectors pass, or a connector designed to pass through a partition.
  4. noun A pressure-resistant sealed barrier to any fluid in a large structure.
  5. noun A retaining wall along a waterfront.
  6. noun (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine) A cellar hatchway.

Etymology

From Old Norse bálkr (“partition”) + head, anglicised as bulk + head.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.
  2. noun A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front. Bulked line, a line beyond which a wharf must not project; --usually, the harbor line.

Etymology [See Bulk part of a building.]

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