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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guernsey

UK /ˈɡɜːnzi/ · US /ˈɡɝnzi/ noun, proper noun

Forms guernseys gansey ganzy ganzee

  1. noun A seaman's knitted woolen sweater, similar to a jersey.
  2. noun (Australia, Australian rules football) The shirt worn by the players.
  3. noun (Australia, slang, as in "get a guernsey") [receive] praise, admiration, recognition, credit, etc
  4. proper noun An island, the second-largest of the Channel Islands.
  5. proper noun The Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British crown dependency on the island of Guernsey.
  6. proper noun An unincorporated community in California.
  7. proper noun A city in Iowa.
  8. proper noun A hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  9. proper noun A town in Wyoming.
  10. noun A breed of dairy cattle originally bred on Guernsey; any individual of this breed.
  11. noun A knitted fisherman’s sweater of a type made on the island.
  12. noun A long-sleeved shirt worn by sportsmen, especially in rugby codes (historically).
  13. noun (Australia) A team-liveried shirt; a jersey.
  14. noun (Australia) Selection or election to a position.

Synonyms

island of Guernsey

Etymology

From Guernsey.

From Anglo-Norman, from Old Norse, compound of Grani (“Grani's”) and ey (“island”). Folk etymology points to a dialectal root for green.

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