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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cooper

/ˈkʊpɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms coopers coopering coopered

  1. noun A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.
  2. noun (obsolete) A drink of half stout and half porter.
  3. verb (now rare) To make and repair barrels etc.
  4. verb (transitive, slang, obsolete) To forge or imitate (writing).
  5. verb (transitive, slang, obsolete) To intentionally injure (a racehorse) to spoil its chances of winning.
  6. proper noun (countable) An English surname originating as an occupation of cooper.
  7. proper noun (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in Monterey County, California.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in Tazewell County, Illinois.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Greene County, Iowa.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Kentucky.
  12. proper noun A small town in Washington County, Maine.
  13. proper noun A neighbourhood in south Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Synonyms

Peter Cooper Gary Cooper Frank Cooper James Fenimore Cooper barrel maker

Etymology

From Coop.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who makes barrels, hogsheads, casks, etc.
  2. verb To do the work of a cooper upon; as, to cooper a cask or barrel.

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