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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copse

/kɒps/ noun, verb

Forms copses copsing copsed

  1. noun A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
  2. noun Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.
  3. noun Any woodland or woodlot.
  4. verb (transitive, horticulture) To trim or cut.
  5. verb (transitive, horticulture) To plant and preserve.

Synonyms

mott thicket bush orchard stand wood woods coppice brush brushwood

Etymology

1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.
  2. verb To trim or cut; --said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc. Halliwell.
  3. verb To plant and preserve, as a copse. Swift.

Etymology [Contr. from coppice.]

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