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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delinquent

/dɪˈlɪŋkwənt/ adjective, noun

Forms delinquents

  1. adjective Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan. “Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.”
  2. adjective Of a payment or other financial obligation: late or otherwise unfulfilled. “The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.”
  3. adjective Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
  4. noun One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws, or who acts against another's wishes.
  5. noun A person who has not paid their debts.
  6. noun (historical, derogatory) A royalist in the First English Civil War (1642-1646).

Synonyms

defaulting cavalier juvenile delinquent derelict neglectful remiss overdue

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French délinquant, ultimately from Latin delinquens, present participle of delinquo.

Webster’s 1913

  1. Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.
  2. noun One who fails or neglects to perform his duty; an offender or transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a culprit.

Etymology [L. delinquens, -entis, p. pr. of delinquere to fail, be wanting in one's duty, do wrong; de- + linquere to leave. See Loan, n.]

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