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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castaway

UK /ˈkɑːstəweɪ/ · US /ˈkæs.tə.weɪ/ adjective, noun

Forms castaways

  1. adjective Cast adrift or ashore; marooned. “After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.”
  2. adjective Shipwrecked. “The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.”
  3. adjective Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.
  4. noun (nautical) A shipwrecked sailor. “Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.”
  5. noun A discarded person or thing. “This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.”
  6. noun An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society. “These homeless people are society's castaways.”

Synonyms

outcast pariah Ishmael shipwreck survivor

Etymology

Deverbal from cast away.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
  2. noun One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
  3. adjective Of no value; rejected; useless.

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