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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ketch

/kɛt͡ʃ/ noun, verb

Forms ketches ketching ketched

  1. noun A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
  2. verb (rare) To hang.
  3. noun A hangman.
  4. noun (UK, dialectal) A pie or turnover.
  5. noun Synonym of Jack Ketch (“a public executioner”).

Synonyms

Guy Fawkes stretch string up forhang hang send to the scaffold scrag truss tuck up Jack Ketch

Etymology

From Middle English catche, from cacchen (“to catch”). For the modern form with /ɛ/, compare the pronunciation /kɛtʃ/ of catch.

From Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century.

From Middle English kechel (“small cake”), from Old English *cēċel (“small cake”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōkil (“small cake”).

See catch.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, --usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden. Bomb ketch. See under Bomb.
  2. noun A hangman. See Jack Ketch.
  3. verb To catch. [Now obs. in spelling, and colloq. in pronunciation.]

Etymology [Prob. corrupted fr. Turk. qaiq : cf. F. caiche. Cf. Caïque.]

Etymology [See Catch.]

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