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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Canuck

/kəˈnʌk/ noun, proper noun, adjective

Forms Canucks Canack Cannack Canuc Canuk Conuck Cunnuck Kanuck Kanuk K'nuck

  1. noun (Canada, US, informal, sometimes derogatory) A Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other non-English descent.
  2. noun (ice hockey) A member of the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.
  3. noun (skiing) Chiefly as Crazy Canuck: a member of the Canadian alpine ski team.
  4. noun (rare) A thing from Canada.
  5. noun (aviation, military, historical) The Avro Canada CF-100 fighter-interceptor aircraft, in use between 1952 and 1981.
  6. noun (US, obsolete) A Canadian horse or pony.
  7. proper noun (historical, rare) Synonym of Canadian French (“the French language as spoken by Francophones in Canada”).
  8. proper noun (slang) Synonym of Canadian English (“the variety of the English language used in Canada”).
  9. adjective (originally informal, sometimes derogatory) Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people; Canadian.
  10. adjective (ice hockey) Of or relating to the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.

Synonyms

Canadian Canajan Canajun Johnny Canuck hoser Canadian French Canadian English Canuckistani Canuckistanian

Antonyms

non-Canadian

Etymology

Origin uncertain, often hypothesized to derive from the name or speech of an early Canadian minority, later broadened to denote all Canadians:
* Since 1975, many scholars have come to think the name is from Hawaiian kanaka (“man”), a self-appellation of indentured colonial canoemen and Hawaiian sailors working off the Pacific Northwest, Arctic, and New England coasts, from French canaque (“indigenous Melanesian inhabitant of New Caledonia, Kanak”); or, more likely, American whalers’ pidgin, then re-interpreted as Can(adian) + a suffix. (More below on that [specific] putative suffix.) Compare English Kanak and German Kanake.
* Some dictionaries suggest it is derived from the first syllable of Canada, or its etymon Laurentian kanata (“village”), or a related word kanuchsa meaning “villager” in either Laurentian or another Iroquoian language; with the second syllable connected to Inuktitut inuk (“man; person”), from Chinook (“Aboriginal people of the U.S. Pacific Northwest”), or another First-Nation language ending like -oc, -uc, or -uq.
* Fanciful and unlikely suggestions include German genug von Canada (literally “enough of Canada”) (allegedly uttered by German mercenaries during the American War of Independence), French quelle canule (“what a bore”) (allegedly uttered by the French during a siege of Quebec), or the surname Connaught /ˈkɑ.nəxt/ (supposedly a French-Canadian nickname for the Irish).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A Canadian. [Slang]
  2. noun A small or medium-sized hardy horse, common in Canada. [Colloq.]

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