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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checker

UK /ˈtʃɛkə/ · US /ˈt͡ʃɛkɚ/ noun, verb

Forms checkers checkering checkered chequer

  1. noun One who or that which checks or verifies something.
  2. noun One who makes a check mark.
  3. noun The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment. “There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.”
  4. noun One who hinders or stops something.
  5. noun A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
  6. noun A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
  7. noun An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
  8. verb (transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
  9. verb (intransitive) To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.
  10. noun The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis

Synonyms

chequer check

Etymology

From Middle English cheker, aphetic from Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”), from Latin scaccarium, thus ultimately morpheme-for-morpheme cognate to etymology 1.

Alteration of chequer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who checks.
  2. verb To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.
  3. verb To variegate or diversify with different qualities, color, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosterity and adversity.
  4. noun A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.

Etymology [From Check, v. t.]

Etymology [From OF. eschequier a chessboard, F. échiquier. See Check, n., and cf. 3d Checker.]

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