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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

grange

/ɡɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ noun, proper noun

Forms granges

  1. noun (archaic) A granary.
  2. noun (UK) A farm, with its associated buildings; a farmhouse, particularly one associated with a monastic order, or manor.
  3. noun (US) A lodge of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization.
  4. proper noun (US, with "the") The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, an association of farmers organized in 1867 which sponsors social activities, community service, and political lobbying.
  5. proper noun A state branch or branch lodge of the National Grange. “Governor Johnson received the backing of the state Grange in his bid for re-election.”
  6. proper noun A beachside suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
  7. proper noun A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
  8. proper noun A village in County Sligo (Irish grid ref G6649).
  9. proper noun A village in County Tipperary.
  10. proper noun A village in County Waterford.
  11. proper noun A village in Borrowdale parish, Cumberland council area, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NY2517).

Synonyms

Grange in Borrowdale

Etymology

From Middle English graunge, borrowed from Old French grange (“granary; barn; small farm”), from Vulgar Latin *grānica, from Latin grānum (“grain”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A building for storing grain; a granary. [Obs.] Milton.
  2. noun A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes.

Etymology [F. grange barn, LL. granea, from L. granum grain. See Grain a kernel.]

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