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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lard

UK /lɑːd/ · US /lɑɹd/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms lards larding larded

  1. noun Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
  2. noun (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
  3. noun (slang) Excess fat on a person or animal.
  4. verb (cooking) To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
  5. verb To smear with fat or lard.
  6. verb To distribute, garnish or strew, especially with reference to fatty or greasy things or words or phrases in speech and writing.
  7. verb To fatten; to enrich.
  8. verb To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
  9. verb To embellish with unnecessary frills; to pad.
  10. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To grow fat.
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

embroider pad embellish aggrandize aggrandise blow up dramatize dramatise

Etymology

From Middle English lard, from Old French lard (“bacon”), from Latin lārdum, lāridum (“bacon fat”).

From Middle English larden, from Old French larder and Medieval Latin lārdō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Bacon; the flesh of swine. [Obs.] Dryden.
  2. noun The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also, this fat melted and strained. Lard oil, an illuminating and lubricating oil expressed from lard.
  3. verb To stuff with bacon; to dress or enrich with lard; esp., to insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of, before roasting; as, to lard poultry.
  4. verb To fatten; to enrich.

Etymology [F., bacon, pig's fat, L. lardum, laridum; cf. Gr. ( 1. Bacon; the flesh of swine. [Obs.]

Etymology [F. larder. See Lard, n.]

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