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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antic

/ˈæn.tɪk/ adjective, noun, verb

Also a form of antique

Forms antics anticking anticked antick anticke

  1. adjective Playful, funny, absurd.
  2. adjective (architecture, art) Grotesque, incongruous.
  3. adjective (archaic) Grotesque, bizarre
  4. noun (architecture, art, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
  5. noun A caricature.
  6. noun (often in the plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper. “I'm fed up with your constant antics in class. Please behave yourself!”
  7. noun A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.
  8. verb (intransitive) To perform antics, to caper.
  9. verb (obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
  10. verb (transitive, rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
  11. noun (animation) A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping

Synonyms

joke prank trick caper put-on clown clown around fantastic fantastical grotesque

Etymology

Probably from Italian antico (“ancient”), used to describe ancient wall paintings from classical times, from Latin antiquus (“venerable”). See also Italian grottesco (“grotesque”). Doublet of antique.

From anticipation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Old; antique. (Zoöl.)
  2. adjective "Lords of antic fame." Phaer.
  3. noun A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play.
  4. noun An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure.

Etymology [The same word as antique; cf. It. antico ancient. See Antique.]

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