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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Gibraltar

/d͡ʒɪˈbɹɔːltə(ɹ)/ proper noun, noun

Forms Gibraltars

  1. proper noun A peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia.
  2. proper noun A strait connecting the Mediterranean to the Atlantic between Gibraltar and Morocco; in full, Strait of Gibraltar.
  3. proper noun A hamlet in Kempston Rural parish, Bedford borough, Bedfordshire (OS grid ref TL0046).
  4. proper noun A hamlet mostly in Dinton with Ford and Upton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP7510).
  5. proper noun A hamlet in Hawkinge parish, Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2039).
  6. proper noun A locality in Bletchingdon parish, Cherwell district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP4818).
  7. proper noun A city in Wayne County, Michigan.
  8. proper noun A ghost town in Union County, North Carolina.
  9. noun (chiefly Canada, US); (originally) A cortado served in a small glass; (by extension) any cortado

Synonyms

Mons Calpe Strait of Gibraltar Straits of Gibraltar STROG Rock of Gibraltar Calpe

Etymology

From Spanish Gibraltar, from Arabic جَبَل طَارِق (jabal ṭāriq, “Mount Tariq”), named after Tariq ibn Ziyad, who led the Umayyad conquest of Hispania, starting in 711. Replaced earlier Latin Mons Calpe (“Mount Calpe”) for the land, and Columnae Herculis, from Ancient Greek Ἡράκλειαι στῆλαι (Hērákleiai stêlai, “Pillars of Hercules”), for the strait.
The barangay in Baguio, Philippines is named by a German national "Jonathan Speth" after the Rock of Gibraltar in Europe. He lived and died in the barangay.

"Gibraltar" is the name of a line of tumblers made by glassware company Libbey. The drink was named in 2005, by Steve Ford at Blue Bottle Coffee in San Francisco, after the glass in which its version was served.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A strongly fortified town on the south coast of Spain, held by the British since 1704; hence, an impregnable stronghold.
  2. noun A kind of candy sweetmeat, or a piece of it; --called, in full, Gibraltar rock.

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