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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kick up

verb

Forms kicks up kicking up kicked up

  1. verb (of a horse) To rear back; to become more active or restless; to speed up.
  2. verb (informal, figuratively, by extension, transitive, US) To raise, to increase (a price). “The rent has been kicked up again.”
  3. verb (informal, figuratively, transitive) To stir up (trouble), to cause (a disturbance).
  4. verb (transitive, colloquial) To make more exciting. “kick it up a notch”
  5. verb (informal, intransitive) To show anger (about something). “He kicked up about it when they told him the train had been cancelled.”
  6. verb (informal, intransitive, US) To function improperly; to show signs of disorder; (of an illness) to flare up. “The car is kicking up.”
  7. verb (machinery) To move sharply upward. “See, that rod there is supposed to kick up to engage the gear.”
  8. verb (slang) To pass (something, such as a proposal or a share of a bribe) up a hierarchy or chain of command. “You have to kick up some money to the boss.”

Synonyms

run up the flagpole provoke evoke call forth

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