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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crackling

/ˈkɹæk(ə)lɪŋ/ noun, adjective

Also a form of crackle

Forms cracklings

  1. noun (cooking, often in the plural, US) Fat that, after roasting a joint, hardens and crispens
  2. noun (cooking, in the singular in UK) The crispy rind of roast pork.
  3. noun (cooking, countable) A crispy, fried skin or rind, especially of pork.
  4. noun The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
  5. noun (obsolete, usually in the plural) Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.
  6. noun Three stripes of velvet worn on the sleeves of students at St John's College, Cambridge.
  7. adjective Sounding with small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.

Synonyms

cracklin(s) greaves crackle crepitation

Etymology

By surface analysis, crackle + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
  2. noun The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork.

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “crackling” (best matches first).

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