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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jazz

/d͡ʒæz/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms jazzes jazzing jazzed jaz jas jass jasz

  1. noun (music) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
  2. noun (figurative) Energy, excitement, excitability.
  3. noun The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s). “and all that jazz”
  4. noun (with positive terms) Something of excellent quality, the genuine article. “That show was the jazz!”
  5. noun Nonsense. “Stop talking jazz.”
  6. noun (slang) Semen, jizz.
  7. noun A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
  8. verb (slang) To destroy; to ruin. “You’ve gone and jazzed it now!”
  9. verb To play (jazz music).
  10. verb To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
  11. verb To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting.
  12. verb (slang) To complicate. “Don’t jazz it too much!”
  13. verb (intransitive, US slang, dated) To have sex for money, to prostitute oneself.
  14. verb (intransitive, slang) To move (around/about) in a lively or frivolous manner; to fool around.
  15. verb (slang, transitive) To distract or pester. “Stop jazzing me!”
  16. proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Jasper.
  17. proper noun A diminutive of the male given name James.
  18. proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Jasmine.

Synonyms

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Etymology

Unknown. First attested around 1912 in a discussion of baseball; attested in reference to music around 1915. Numerous references suggest that the term may be connected to jasm and jism.

A fanciful spelling variant of Jaz and Jas.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “jazz”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details