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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cycling

/ˈsaɪk(ə)lɪŋ/ noun, adjective

Also a form of cycle

Forms cyclings

  1. noun (uncountable) The activity of riding cycles, especially bicycles (for transport, sport, physical exercise, recreation, tourism...)
  2. noun Bicycling.
  3. noun (uncountable) The sport of riding and racing cycles, especially bicycles. “In all my years as a cycling fan, I've never seen a breakaway like this.”
  4. noun (countable) Any cyclic action or process. “The cycling of the water softener in the basement was faintly audible from the kitchen.”
  5. adjective That undergoes a cyclic motion or process.

Synonyms

biking cycle sport race cycling

Etymology

By surface analysis, cycle + -ing.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle.

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