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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deuce

UK /djuːs/ · US /dus/ noun

Forms deuces the Deuce

  1. noun (card games) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
  2. noun (dice games) A side of a die with two spots.
  3. noun (dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.
  4. noun (Canada, US, slang) A bowel movement (the event or the result).
  5. noun (Canada, slang) A two-year prison sentence.
  6. noun A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.
  7. noun (tennis, table tennis, volleyball) A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
  8. noun (baseball) A curveball.
  9. noun (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.
  10. noun Synonym of devil (“something awkward or difficult”). “We had a deuce of a time getting here.”

Synonyms

two number two big jobs bowel movement cack call of nature crap crapping defecating defecation doing one's ease doing one's easement dump dumping easement hod motion poo pooh poop 2 II devil dickens

Etymology

From Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo. The word was used by Ford Motor Co. in 1932 to describe a two-seater car model.

Compare Late Latin dusius (“phantom, specter”); Scottish Gaelic taibhs, taibhse (“apparition, ghost”); or from Old French deus (“God”), from Latin deus (compare deity).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts.
  2. noun A condition of the score beginning whendeuce, which decides the game.
  3. noun The devil; a demon. [A euphemism, written also deuse.] [Low]

Etymology [F. deux two, OF. deus, fr. L. duo. See Two.]

Etymology [Cf. LL. dusius, Armor, dus, teûz, phantom, specter; Gael. taibhs, taibhse, apparition, ghost; or fr. OF. deus God, fr. L. deus (cf. Deity.)]

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