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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chef

/ʃɛf/ noun, verb

Forms chefs cheffing cheffed

  1. noun The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.
  2. noun The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.
  3. noun Any cook. “My partner is the chef of the household, while I do most of the cleaning.”
  4. noun (slang) One who manufactures illegal drugs; a cook.
  5. noun (historical) A reliquary in the shape of a head.
  6. verb (stative, informal) To work as a chef; to prepare and cook food professionally.
  7. verb (MLE, transitive) To stab with a knife, to shank. “He got cheffed up proper.”
  8. verb (Internet slang) To impress others.

Synonyms

magirist magirologist ching splash chib chive enthrill foin gore gride jab job juke kebab knifecrime lancinate pigstick pink poach run through

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French chef (from the positions of chef d'office and chef de cuisine), from Old French chief (“head, leader”) (English chief), from Vulgar Latin capus (“head”) (from which also captain, chieftain), from Latin caput (“head”) (possibly related to English cap (“head covering”)).
Doublet of cape, capo, caput, and chief through Latin, and head and Howth through Proto-Indo-European.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A chief of head person.
  2. noun The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.

Etymology [F.]

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