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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flunk

/flʌŋk/ verb

Forms flunks flunking flunked

  1. verb (ambitransitive) Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass. “He flunked math, again.”
  2. verb (transitive) Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade. “Unsatisfied with Fred's progress, the teacher flunked him.”
  3. verb (by extension) To fail any challenge
  4. verb (dated, informal) To shirk (a task or duty).
  5. verb To back out through fear. (Commonly in the phrase 'flunk it', the 'it' referring to a specific task avoided; sometimes without specific reference, describing a person's attitude to life in general.)

Synonyms

failing fail bomb flush it

Etymology

Alteration of funk, or perhaps a blend of flinch + funk.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.
  2. verb To fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty. [Colloq. U.S.]
  3. noun A failure or backing out; specifically (College cant),
  4. noun a total failure in a recitation. [U.S.]

Etymology [Cf. Funk.]

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