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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gorget

UK /ˈɡɔːdʒɪt/ · US /ˈɡoɹ.d͡ʒɪt/ noun

Forms gorgets

  1. noun (historical) A piece of armour protecting the throat and/or the upper part of the chest.
  2. noun (historical) A crescent-shaped ornamental metal plate suspended around the neck from the crescent's points by a length of chain or ribbon, used to indicate rank or authority and was worn as part of a dress military uniform by officers.
  3. noun (historical) A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple.
  4. noun An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc.
  5. noun (surgery) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
  6. noun A grooved instrument used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.
  7. noun (zoology) A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
  8. noun (UK, dialect, Cornwall) A hake caught in a net set for other fish.

Synonyms

neckplate hausse-col gorgerin gorgerette gorgeret

Etymology

From Middle English gorget, from Old French gorgete, from gorge (“throat”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century.
  2. noun A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.

Etymology [OF. gorgete, dim. of gorge throat. See Gorge, n.]

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