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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clink

/klɪŋk/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms clinks clinking clinked klink

  1. noun (onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass. “You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.”
  2. noun Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
  3. verb (ambitransitive) To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another. “The hammers clinked on the stone all night.”
  4. verb (humorous, dated) To rhyme.
  5. noun (dated, slang) A prison. “If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink.”
  6. verb (transitive, Scotland) To clinch; to rivet.
  7. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

chink click jail jailhouse gaol slammer poky pokey tinkle tink

Etymology

From Middle English clinken, from Old English *clincan (compare clynnan, clynian (“to sound; resound”)), from Proto-Germanic *klinganą (“to sound”).
Cognates include Middle Dutch klinken and German klingen. Related to cling (sound) and clang. May be further related to call.
Perhaps of onomatopoeic origin, as metal against metal.

From the Clink prison in Southwark, London, itself presumably named after sound of doors being bolted or chains rattling.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
  2. verb To give out a slight, sharp, thinkling sound. "The clinking latch." Tennyson.
  3. verb To rhyme. [Humorous]. Cowper.
  4. noun A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies. "Clink and fall of swords." Shak.

Etymology [OE. clinken; akin to G. klingen, D. klinken, SW. klinga, Dan. klinge; prob. of imitative origin. Cf. Clank, Clench, Click, v. i.]

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