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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henry

/ˈhɛn.ɹi/ noun, proper noun

Forms henries henrys Henri Henrie Henery Hendry

  1. noun In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical inductance; the inductance induced in a circuit by a rate of change of current of one ampere per second and a resulting electromotive force of one volt. Symbol: H
  2. noun (UK, rhyming slang) A turd.
  3. noun (UK, slang) A quantity of marijuana weighing one-eighth of an ounce.
  4. noun (slang) Heroin.
  5. proper noun A male given name from the Germanic languages, popular in England since the Middle Ages.
  6. proper noun A French and English surname originating as a patronymic.
  7. proper noun A small city in Marshall County, Illinois; named for Illinois militia officer James D. Henry.
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in Ripley Township, Rush County, Indiana.
  9. proper noun A village in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska; named for Henry Nichols, late son of the original owner of the town site.
  10. proper noun A small town in Codington County, South Dakota; named for early settler J. D. Henry.
  11. proper noun A small town in Henry County, Tennessee.
  12. proper noun A number of townships, listed under Henry Township.
  13. proper noun A surname from Irish, an anglicization of Ó hInneirghe (“descendant of Inneirghe”).
  14. proper noun A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic], an alternate anglicization of Mac Éinrí, Mac Hannraoi, Mac Annraoi (“son of Henry”) (McHenry)

Synonyms

eighth Big H boy brown sugar brown bujj diacetylmorphine diamorphine dog food dope dugee heroin horse H junk muck mud ron scag smack William Henry Patrick Henry Joseph Henry

Etymology

Named after American scientist Joseph Henry (1797–1878).

Rhyming slang, from Henry the Third.

From Henry the Eighth.

Initial letter.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampère a second.

Etymology [From Joseph Henry, an American physicist.]

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