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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

George

/dʒɔːdʒ/ noun, proper noun

Forms Georges

  1. noun (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter G.
  2. proper noun A male given name from Ancient Greek.
  3. proper noun An English and Welsh surname originating as a patronymic.
  4. proper noun A French surname originating as a patronymic.
  5. proper noun A German surname originating as a patronymic, a variant of Georg.
  6. proper noun A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic], an anglicization of Seoirse.
  7. proper noun A diminutive of the female given names Georgina and Georgia; also used in the conjoined name George Ann(e).
  8. proper noun (aviation, slang) The autopilot of an aircraft.
  9. proper noun (Canada, US, slang, dated) Generic name for a Pullman porter.
  10. noun (slang, archaic) A coin bearing King George's profile.
  11. noun A jewelled figure of St George slaying the dragon, worn by Knights of the Garter.

Synonyms

Golf Geo. Georgeson Saint George St. George George VI George V George IV George III George II George I

Etymology

Name of an early saint, from Middle English George, from Latin Geōrgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργῐος (Geṓrgĭos), from γεωργός (geōrgós, “farmer, earth worker”), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) (combining form γεω- (geō-)) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”) Doublet of Jorge and Geevarghese.
The aircraft autopilot sense is probably from George DeBeeson, who patented an early (1931) autopilot system, and/or a reference to the expression let George do it. The Pullman porter sense derives from George Pullman, who hired Black people to staff his sleeping cars, and the patrons of the service seeing the Black people as servants of George Porter, much like how a slave was named after the master.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter.
  2. noun A kind of brown loaf. [Obs.] Dryden.

Etymology [F. George, or Georges, a proper name, fr. Gr. work. See Work.]

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