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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faro

/ˈfɛəɹəʊ/ noun, proper noun

  1. noun (card games) A game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack.
  2. proper noun A city in Portugal.
  3. proper noun A municipality of Pará, Brazil.
  4. proper noun A department of the North Region, Cameroon.
  5. proper noun A town in central Yukon, Canada.
  6. proper noun An unincorporated community in Twelvemile Township, Madison County, Missouri, United States.
  7. proper noun An unincorporated community in Wayne County, North Carolina, United States.
  8. proper noun A Baltic Sea island just north of the Swedish island of Gotland.

Synonyms

farobank pharaoh

Etymology

Presumably an alteration of pharaoh, itself a transcription of French pharaon, perhaps as a name for the King of Hearts.

From Portuguese Faro, from Old Galician-Portuguese Faaron.

Unadapted borrowing from Swedish Fårö.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack. Faro bank, the capital which the proprietor of a farotable ventures in the game; also, the place where a game of faro is played. Hoyle.

Etymology [Said to be so called because the Egyptian king Pharaoh was formerly represented upon one of the cards.]

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