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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crummy

/ˈkɹʌmi/ adjective, noun

Forms crummier crummiest crummies

  1. adjective (informal) Bad; poor. “Do not bother buying crummy knives if you are serious about cooking.”
  2. adjective (dated) Full of crumb or crumbs.
  3. adjective (dated) Soft, like the crumb of bread; not crusty.
  4. noun (informal, British Columbia and Northwestern US) A small van, bus, or railway car used to transport loggers or other resource workers to and from the worksite.
  5. noun A cow with a crumpled horn.

Synonyms

abysmal atrocious awful bad chronic coarse corny crap crapalicious crappy deityforsaken dire disagreeable dismal dogshit dreadful fifth-rate foul fourth-rate godawful bum cheap cheesy chintzy punk sleazy tinny

Etymology

Variant of crumby, mid 19th c.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Full of crumb or crumbs.
  2. adjective Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.

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