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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disco

UK /ˈdɪskəʊ/ · US /ˈdɪskoʊ/ noun, verb

Forms discos discoing discoed

  1. noun (uncountable, music) A genre of dance music that was popular in the 1970s, characterized by elements of soul music with a strong Latin-American beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights.
  2. noun (UK) A dance, a social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
  3. verb (intransitive) To dance disco-style dances.
  4. verb (intransitive) To go to discotheques.
  5. noun (US, law, informal) discovery (pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered) “You don't need to worry about these details at the complaint stage, we can get them in disco.”
  6. noun (US, law, informal) discovery (materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered) “Has the disco come in from the defendants yet? We sent them requests almost six weeks ago.”

Synonyms

club nightclub disco music discotheque

Etymology

From a shortening of discotheque, from French discothèque.

Clipping of discovery.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “disco”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details