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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dairy

/ˈdɛə.ɹi/ noun, adjective

Forms dairies

  1. noun (uncountable) (also dairy products or dairy produce) Products produced from milk.
  2. noun A place, often on a farm, where milk is processed and turned into products such as butter and cheese. “Go and fetch the butter from the dairy.”
  3. noun A dairy farm.
  4. noun A shop selling dairy products. “Can you go and buy some yoghurt and blue cheese from the dairy?”
  5. noun (New Zealand) A corner store, superette or minimart.
  6. noun (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
  7. adjective Referring to products produced from milk.
  8. adjective (specifically) Referring to products produced from animal milk as opposed to non-milk substitutes.
  9. adjective Referring to the milk production and processing industries.
  10. adjective (UK) On food labelling, containing fats only from dairy sources (e.g. dairy ice cream).

Synonyms

milkhouse milkery dairy farm

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English deyerie (“dairy, dairy farm”), from Anglo-Norman deyerie (“dairy”), from deye (“dairymaid”) + -erie (“-ery”); by surface analysis, dey (“dairymaid”) + -ry. Cognate with Scots dery, dyrie.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.
  2. noun That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese.

Etymology [OE. deierie, from deie, daie, maid; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deigja maid, dairymaid, Sw. deja, orig., a baking maid, fr. Icel. deig. Dough.]

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