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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cockpit

UK /ˈkɒkˌpɪt/ · US /ˈkɑkˌpɪt/ noun

Forms cockpits

  1. noun (now chiefly historical) A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting.
  2. noun (by extension, obsolete) A theater or other entertainment venue.
  3. noun (figurative) A site of conflict; a battlefield.
  4. noun (vulgar) The vagina.
  5. noun (Jamaica) A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes.
  6. noun (nautical, now historical) The area set aside for junior officers including the ship's surgeon on a man-of-war, where the wounded were treated; the sickbay.
  7. noun (nautical) A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located.
  8. noun The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or other automobile).
  9. noun The compartment in an aircraft or spacecraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled.
  10. noun (figurative) An area from where something is controlled or managed; a centre of control.

Synonyms

flight deck office

Etymology

Compound of cock (“rooster”) + pit.

Either the same as above or from compound of cock (“boat”) + pit, where the first element is also found in cockboat and coxswain.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights.
  2. noun The Privy Council room at Westminster; --so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace. Brande & C.

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