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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coon

UK /kuːn/ · US /kun/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of raccoon

Forms coons cooning cooned

  1. noun (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
  2. noun (informal, chiefly Southern US) A raccoon.
  3. noun (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black race traitor.
  4. noun (informal, South Africa) A member of a colorfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.
  5. noun (Southern US, ethnic slur) A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.
  6. noun (US, dated) A sly fellow.
  7. noun (African-American Vernacular) A black person who "plays the coon"; that is, who plays the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
  8. verb (Southern US, colloquial) To hunt raccoons.
  9. verb (climbing) To traverse by crawling, as a ledge.
  10. verb (Southern US, colloquial) To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.
  11. verb (Georgia, colloquial) To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.
  12. verb (African-American Vernacular, of an African-American) To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
  13. verb (Southern US, colloquial, dated) To steal.
  14. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

Oreo Uncle Tom nigger nigga spade jigaboo nigra common raccoon common racoon ringtail Procyon lotor

Etymology

Clipping of raccoon.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A raccoon. See Raccoon.

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