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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iceberg

UK /ˈaɪsbɜːɡ/ · US /ˈaɪsbɝɡ/ noun

Forms icebergs

  1. noun (obsolete) The seaward end of a glacier. [18th–19th c.]
  2. noun A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf [from 19th c.] “The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.”
  3. noun (US, slang) An aloof person. [from 19th c.]
  4. noun (figuratively, after an adjective) An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show.
  5. noun (figuratively, slang, chiefly Internet slang) A topic that is more convoluted and fractal than it may seem. “Do some digging into that politician's past life and associates, and you'll see that the iceberg runs deep.”
  6. noun (by extension) A list, infographic, or other enumeration of such a topic and its subcomponents, often ordered into groups sorted by obscurity and bizarreness. “Check out the gaming iceberg on this post! There's some really freaky titles there that I've never heard of.”

Synonyms

rabbit hole berg crisphead lettuce iceberg lettuce

Etymology

Partial calque of Dutch ijsberg (compound of ijs (“ice”) + berg (“mountain”)), from Middle Dutch ijsberch. First used to describe a glacier as seen at a distance from a ship then used as a term to describe the floating chunks of ice broken off from such glaciers. Cognate to German Eisberg, Danish isbjerg, Norwegian isberg and Swedish isberg. Figurative senses in reference to the fact that only one-tenth of an iceberg is usually visible above water.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.

Etymology [Prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. iisbierg, Sw. isberg, properly, a mountain of ice. See Ice, and Berg.]

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