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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gully

/ˈɡʌli/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms gullies gullying gullied Gullys gulley

  1. noun A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
  2. noun A small valley.
  3. noun (UK) A drop kerb.
  4. noun A road drain.
  5. noun (cricket) A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position
  6. noun (UK) A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
  7. verb (obsolete) To flow noisily.
  8. verb (transitive) To wear away into a gully or gullies.
  9. noun (Scotland, northern UK) A large knife.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

gill box

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Possibly from a variant of Middle English golet (“esophagus, gullet”), from Old French goulet, from Latin gula (“throat”). Shift in meaning in Middle English to "water channel, ravine" may have been influenced by Middle English gylle, gille, galle (“deep narrow valley, ravine”); see gill. Compare Dutch geul.
Alternatively, from a diminutive of dialectal gull (“fissue, chasm”) + -y (diminutive suffix). See gull, gullick.

From Scots gully, of unknown origin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A large knife. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
  2. noun A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.
  3. noun A grooved iron rail or tram plate. [Eng.] Gully gut, a glutton.
  4. verb To wear into a gully or into gullies.

Etymology [Etymol. uncertain]

Etymology [Formerly gullet.]

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