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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garner

UK /ˈɡɑː.nə/ · US /ˈɡɑːɹ.nɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms garners garnering garnered

  1. noun A granary; a store of grain.
  2. noun An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
  3. verb To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
  4. verb To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
  5. verb (often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire (attitudes, reputations, or actions from others) by some effort or due to some fact “To garner support”
  6. verb (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
  7. proper noun A surname.
  8. proper noun A town in White County, Arkansas.
  9. proper noun A city, the county seat of Hancock County, Iowa.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Linn County, Missouri.
  11. proper noun A town in Wake County, North Carolina.

Synonyms

reap gain granary earn gather collect pull together

Etymology

From Middle English gerner, from Old French gernier, guernier, variant of grenier, from Latin grānārium (“granary”). Doublet of granary.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.
  2. verb To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure. Shak.

Etymology [OE. garner, gerner, greiner, OF. gernier, grenier, F. grenier, fr. L. granarium, fr. granum. See 1st Grain, and cf. Granary.]

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