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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canker

UK /ˈkæŋkə/ · US /ˈkæŋkɚ/ noun, verb

Forms cankers cankering cankered

  1. noun (phytopathology) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
  2. noun A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease.
  3. noun A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm.
  4. noun A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
  5. noun Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys. “the canker of destitution and violence.”
  6. noun A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
  7. noun An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.
  8. noun An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae.
  9. verb (transitive) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
  10. verb (transitive) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
  11. verb (intransitive) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
  12. verb (intransitive) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.

Synonyms

avian trichomoniasis roup frounce water canker canker of the mouth noma encanker canker sore pestilence

Etymology

From Middle English canker, cancre, from Old English cancer (“cancer; crab”), akin to Dutch kanker, Old High German chanchar. Ultimately from Latin cancer (“a cancer”). Doublet of cancer, a later borrowing from Latin, and chancre, which came through French.

From Middle English cankren, from the noun (see above).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; --called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.
  2. noun Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.
  3. verb To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consune.
  4. verb To infect or pollute; to corrupt. Addison.

Etymology [OE. canker, cancre, AS. cancer (akin to D. kanker, OHG chanchar.), fr. L. cancer a cancer; or if a native word, cf. Gr. cancre, F. chancere, fr. L. cancer. See cancer, and cf. Chancre.]

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