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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cranny

/ˈkɹæni/ noun, verb

Forms crannies crannying crannied

  1. noun A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
  2. noun A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
  3. verb (intransitive) To break into, or become full of, crannies.
  4. verb (intransitive) To haunt or enter by crannies.
  5. noun (India, obsolete) A clerk writing English.
  6. noun (India, obsolete) A member of the East Indians, or mixed-race people, from among whom English copyists were chiefly recruited.

Synonyms

crevice crack fissure chap

Etymology

From Middle English crany, crani (“cranny”), apparently a diminutive of *cran (+ -y), from Old French cran, cren (“notch, fissure”), a derivative of crener (“to notch, split”), from Medieval Latin crenō (“split”, verb), from Vulgar Latin *crinō (“split, break”, verb), of obscure origin; according to Watkins, of Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *krīnos (“decayed, withered”).
Despite a spurious use in Pliny, connection to Latin crēna (“notch, incision”) is doubtful. Instead, probably of Germanic or Celtic origin. Compare Old High German chrinna (“notch, groove, crevice”), Alemannic German Krinne (“small crack, channel, groove”), Low German karn (“notch, groove, crevice, cranny”), Old Irish ara-chrinin (“to perish, decay”).

Borrowed from Hindustani किरानी (kirānī) / کِرانِی (kirānī).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
  2. noun A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
  3. verb To crack into, or become full of, crannies. [R.]
  4. verb To haunt, or enter by, crannies.

Etymology [F. cran notch, prob. from L. crena (a doubful word).]

Etymology [Perh. for cranky. See Crank, a.]

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