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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hickory

/ˈhɪkəɹiː/ noun, proper noun

Forms hickories hiccory hickery pokickery

  1. noun (countable) Any of various deciduous hardwood trees of the genera Carya and Annamocarya, one species of which, Carya illinoinensis, is the source of pecan nuts.
  2. noun (uncountable) The wood of these trees.
  3. noun A coarse, durable cotton fabric. “The loggers wore hickory shirts.”
  4. noun (countable, golf, informal) A club with a head made from hickory wood.
  5. proper noun A census-designated place in Graves County, Kentucky, named for the hickory trees.
  6. proper noun An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland.
  7. proper noun A town in Newton County, Mississippi, named for "Old Hickory" (Andrew Jackson).
  8. proper noun A city mostly in Catawba County, North Carolina, named after the Hickory Tavern.
  9. proper noun A town in Murray County, Oklahoma.
  10. proper noun A census-designated place in Mount Pleasant Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in the city of Chesapeake, Virginia.
  12. proper noun A number of townships, listed under Hickory Township.

Synonyms

hickory tree

Etymology

A shortening of pockerchicory/pokickery/pohickery, from Powhatan pawcohiccora.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter. Hickory shad. (Zoöl.) (a) The mattowacca, or fall herring. (b) The gizzard shad.

Etymology [North American Indian pawcohiccora (Capt. J. Smith) a kind of milk or oily liquor pressed from pounded hickory nuts. "Pohickory" is named in a list of Virginia trees, in 1653, and this was finally shortened to "hickory." J. H. Trumbull.]

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