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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heyday

/ˈheɪdeɪ/ noun, interjection

Forms heydays hay day hayday

  1. noun A period of success, popularity, or power; prime. “The early twentieth century was the heyday of the steam locomotive.”
  2. noun (archaic) An exultation of the spirits; gaiety; frolic.
  3. interjection A lively greeting.
  4. interjection (obsolete) An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.

Synonyms

day in the sun glory days golden age golden years good old days hello wow flower prime peak bloom blossom efflorescence flush

Etymology

Late 16th century, from earlier heyda (1520s), as exclamation; compare hey, hei and Swedish hej då. Sense “period of success, vigor” is a reanalysis as heyday based on unrelated day (as “period of time”) – compare day in the sun.

Webster’s 1913

  1. interjection An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder. B. Jonson.
  2. noun The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness.

Etymology [Cf. G. heida, or hei da, D. hei daar. Cf. Hey, and There.]

Etymology [Prob. for. high day. See High, and Day.]

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