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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concertina

UK /ˌkɒnsəˈtiːnə/ · US /ˌkɑnsɚˈtinə/ noun, verb

Forms concertinas concertinaing concertinaed

  1. noun A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
  2. noun Something multiply folded like a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
  3. noun Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.
  4. noun A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.
  5. verb To become compressed into a shape reminiscent of a concertina. “The car concertinaed into the wall.”
  6. verb To be drawn closer and farther apart repeatedly, or up and down, as if situated on a working concertina's folds.

Etymology

From concert + -ina.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small musical imstrument on the principle of the accordion.

Etymology [From It. concerto a concert.]

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