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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goring

noun, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of gore

Forms gorings

  1. noun The act by which something is gored; a wound inflicted by a horn, usually the horn of a bull in the context of bullfighting
  2. noun (textiles) A piece of cloth cut diagonally to increase its apparent width.
  3. adjective (nautical) Cut gradually sloping, so as to be broader at the clew than at the earing of a sail.
  4. proper noun A village in Goring-on-Thames parish, South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England, on the River Thames (OS grid ref SU6080).
  5. proper noun A ward in Worthing borough, West Sussex, England, short for Goring-by-Sea (OS grid ref TQ1102)
  6. proper noun A habitational surname from Old English.

Synonyms

Goring-on-Thames Goering Hermann Goring Hermann Goering Hermann Wilhelm Goring

Etymology

From Old English Garingas (“people of Gara”), a short form of the various compound names with the first element gār (“spear, arrow, dart”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.

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