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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Anglo-Saxon

UK /ˌæŋɡləʊˈsæksən/ · US /ˌænɡloʊˈsæksən/ proper noun, noun, adjective

Forms Anglo-Saxons Anglosaxon AS

  1. proper noun (now rare) Synonym of Old English (language).
  2. proper noun (now often specifically) Old English free of any foreign borrowings (as from Old Norse or Norman French).
  3. proper noun (informal) Profanity, especially words derived from Old English.
  4. noun A member of the Germanic peoples who settled in England during the early fifth century.
  5. noun (US) A person of English ethnic descent.
  6. noun (US, Mexican-American) A lightskinned or blond-haired person presumably of North European descent like British.
  7. adjective Related to the Anglo-Saxon peoples or language.
  8. adjective Related to nations which speak primarily English and are influenced by English culture and customs, especially Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States.
  9. adjective (politics) Favouring a liberal free-market economy.
  10. adjective (US) Descended from some other North European settlers like the British (English).

Synonyms

Old English

Etymology

From Anglo- + Saxon, from Latin Anglosaxones (Anglo-Saxones), Latin Anglī Saxōnēs (literally “the English Saxons”), as distinguished from the Continental Saxons. Displaced native Old English Angelseaxan.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or "Old") Saxon.
  2. noun pl.
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.

Etymology [L. Angli-Saxones English Saxons.]

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