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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coupe

UK /kuːp/ · US /kup/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms coupes

  1. noun A shallow glass or glass dish, usually with a stem, in which sparkling wine or desserts are served.
  2. noun An ice cream dessert served in a coupe glass.
  3. noun An area of forest where harvesting of wood is planned or has taken place.
  4. noun A two-seater car, normally a sports car. (variant of coupé)
  5. noun (US, Canada, automotive) A car with two doors and a nonconvertible roof. (variant of coupé)
  6. noun A two-seater car, normally a sports car. (variant of coupe)
  7. noun (UK) A car with a fixed-roof body style that is shorter than a sedan or saloon of the same model.
  8. noun (historical) The front part of a French stagecoach.
  9. noun (historical) A four-wheeled carriage with two seats inside, and a separate seat for the driver.
  10. noun (historical) The front compartment of a railway carriage.
  11. noun (uncountable) The strongest grade of Spanish saffron, akin to the Iranian sargol.
  12. adjective (heraldry, obsolete) Couped.
  13. proper noun A surname.

Etymology

Borrowed from French coupe. Doublet of cup, hive, and keeve.

Borrowed from French coupé.

Unadapted borrowing from French coupé (an elliptical form of carosse coupé (“cut carriage”)), the past participle of couper (“to cut”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The front compartment of a French diligence; also, the front compartment (usually for three persons) of a car or carriage on British railways.
  2. noun A four-wheeled close carriage for two persons inside, with an outside seat for the driver; --so called because giving the appearance of a larger carriage cut off.

Etymology [F., fr. coupé, p. p. of couper to cut. See Coppice.]

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