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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busk

/bʌsk/ verb, noun, proper noun

Forms busks busking busked

  1. verb (intransitive, especially UK) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
  2. verb (transitive, obsolete) To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
  3. verb (nautical) To tack, cruise about.
  4. noun A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
  5. noun (by extension) A corset.
  6. noun (obsolete) A kind of linen.
  7. verb (transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
  8. verb (Northern England, Scotland) To go; to direct one's course.
  9. proper noun A feast of first fruits among the Creek tribe of Native Americans, celebrated when the corn is ripe enough to be eaten.
  10. proper noun A surname.
  11. proper noun A city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.

Etymology

Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar.

Borrowed from French busc, from Italian busco (“splinter”).

Etymology unknown.

From Middle English busken, from Old Norse búask, reflexive of búa (“to prepare”); compare bound for a derivation from búa's past participle and basken for a similar formation from an Old Norse reflexive.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.
  2. verb To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. [Scot. & Old Eng.]
  3. verb To go; to direct one's course. [Obs.]

Etymology [F. busc, perh. fr. the hypothetical older form of E. bois wood, because the first busks were made of wood. See Bush, and cf. OF. busche, F. bûche, a piece or log of wood, fr. the same root.]

Etymology [OE. busken, fr. Icel. b to make one's self ready, rexlexive of b to prepare, dwell. Cf. 8th Bound.]

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