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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Canadian

/kəˈneɪ.di.ən/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms Canadians

  1. adjective Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people.
  2. adjective (informal) Of, belonging to, or relating to Canadian English.
  3. adjective (informal, nonstandard) Of, belonging to, or relating to Canadian French.
  4. noun A native or inhabitant of Canada.
  5. noun (sports, informal) Canadian national championship.
  6. noun (sports) canoe (short for Canadian canoe, as opposed to kayak)
  7. proper noun (informal) The English language (spoken or written) as used in Canada; Canadian English.
  8. proper noun (geology) An epoch from to million years ago, a subdivision of the Ordovician.
  9. proper noun The Canadian River, a river in New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, and Oklahoma in the United States, which is a tributary of the Arkansas River.
  10. proper noun A town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.
  11. proper noun A city, the county seat of Hemphill County, Texas, situated on the Canadian River.
  12. proper noun A suburb of the City of Ballarat, central western Victoria, Australia.

Synonyms

Canajun Canajan Canuck Canuckistani Canuckistanian hoser Canadian River

Antonyms

non-Canadian

Etymology

From Canada (noun) + -ian (suffix forming adjectives and nouns).

A name of uncertain origin. The city and town names are after the river, while the Australian suburb is named after an 1850's Canadian gold digger known as Swift.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Canada.
  2. adjective A native or inhabitant of Canada. Canadian period (Geol.), A subdivision of the American Lower Silurian system embracing the calciferous, Quebec, and Chazy epochs. This period immediately follows the primordial or Cambrian period, and is by many geologists regarded as the beginning of the Silurian age, See the Diagram, under Geology.

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