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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go around

verb

Forms goes around going around went around gone around

  1. verb (intransitive) To move or spread from person to person. “The rumor is going around that Mr. X and Ms. Y are having an affair. There's a cough going around.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To visit (a place) or with (somebody). “I'm going around to John's house later.”
  3. verb (intransitive, slang) To fight or argue; to obsess over something.
  4. verb (intransitive) To be shared with everyone. “There's plenty of fish to go around.”
  5. verb (intransitive, aviation) To perform a go-around maneuver. “ATC told the flight to go around because another plane was still on the runway.”
  6. verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, around. “Let's make the wheels go around.”

Synonyms

spread circulate outflank revolve rotate bypass short-circuit get around

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “go around”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details