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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goody

/ˈɡʊdi/ interjection, noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms goodies goodier goodiest Goodys goodie Goodey

  1. interjection (informal) Used to indicate pleasure or delight. “Oh goody, ice cream!”
  2. noun (informal) A small amount of something good to eat.
  3. noun (informal) Any small, usually free, item.
  4. noun (Ireland) Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
  5. noun (colloquial, chiefly in phrases with a verb + "the goody out of") That which is good, the good part of something, which one desires to extract or use up.
  6. noun An American fish, the lafayette or spot.
  7. adjective Synonym of goody-goody (“mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious”).
  8. noun (obsolete) Goodwife, a 17th-century Puritan honorific for an adult woman.
  9. proper noun A surname from Old English.
  10. proper noun A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.

Synonyms

yippee goody-goody dainty delicacy kickshaw treat

Etymology

From good + -y (suffix forming colloquialisms), influenced by the noun (Etymology 2).

From good + -y (nominal suffix).

From good + -y (adjectival suffix).

Clipping of goodwife + -y (diminutive suffix). Compare hussy from housewife, the obsolete pronunciation /ˈmɪdɪf/ of midwife, and less directly, missus from mistress.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A bonbon, cake, or the like; --usually in the pl. [Colloq.]
  2. noun An American fish; the lafayette or spot.
  3. noun Goodwife; --a low term of civility or sport.

Etymology [Prob. contr. from goodwife.]

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