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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clinker

UK /ˈklɪŋkə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈklɪŋkɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms clinkers clinkering clinkered klinker

  1. noun A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
  2. noun A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
  3. noun Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
  4. noun An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
  5. noun Hardened volcanic lava.
  6. noun A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
  7. verb (ambitransitive) To convert or be converted into clinker.
  8. noun Someone or something that clinks.
  9. noun (in the plural) Fetters.
  10. noun (slang) A mistake or blunder.
  11. noun (nautical, chiefly attributive) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
  12. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

Dutch clinker lapstrake cinder clinker brick

Etymology

From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).

From clincher.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
  2. noun Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.

Etymology [From clink; cf. D. clinker a brick which is so hard that it makes a sonorous sound, from clinken to clink. Cf. Clinkstone.]

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