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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caddy

/ˈkædi/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of caddie

Forms caddies caddying caddied caddie

  1. noun (also attributively) A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea.
  2. noun A (usually small) box, chest, or tin with a lid, and often with partitions, used to keep things in.
  3. noun A small lidded bin for food waste.
  4. noun A movable tray or other mechanism for holding (sometimes within a piece of equipment or machinery), securing, and transporting a removable component. “Place the disc in the DVD caddy.”
  5. noun A lightweight wheeled cart; specifically, one attached to a bicycle as a conveyance for a child, or pulled by hand and used to transport groceries away from a shop.
  6. verb (intransitive, golf) Chiefly followed by for: alternative spelling of caddie (“to serve as a caddy (noun sense) for a golfer”) “I was honored to caddy for Tiger Woods at a charity golf game.”
  7. proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Caroline. “Call Caddy and tell her to meet us at six o'clock.”
  8. noun (US, informal) A Cadillac car. “She pulled up in a shiny black Caddy at six o'clock.”

Synonyms

tea caddy caddie

Etymology

An alteration of catty (“(unit of) weight used in China, equivalent to 1⅓ pounds avoirdupois (about 0.605 kilograms)”), borrowed from Malay kati (“weight used in China, Indonesia, and Japan”), from Tamil கட்டி (kaṭṭi, “measure of weight; clod, lump”), from கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to coagulate, congeal, or consolidate (into a concretion); to harden”).

A variant of caddie (etymology 1).

From Cadillac + -y.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in.

Etymology [Earlier spelt catty, fr. Malay kati a weight of 11/3 pounds. Cf. Catty.]

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