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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lurch

UK /lɜːt͡ʃ/ · US /lɜɹt͡ʃ/ noun, verb

Forms lurches lurching lurched lorch

  1. noun A sudden or unsteady movement. “the lurch of a ship, or of a drunkard”
  2. verb To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
  3. verb (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
  4. verb (dialectal, intransitive) To evade by stooping; to lurk; lie in wait; go about in a sneaking way.
  5. verb (dialectal, intransitive) To take by surprise; to unexpectedly detain.
  6. verb (obsolete, transitive) To rob.
  7. noun (dialectal) A lift or heave.
  8. noun A predicament or difficult situation. “to leave someone in the lurch”
  9. noun An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
  10. noun A double score in cribbage for the winner when their adversary has not yet pegged their 31st hole.
  11. verb (transitive) To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).
  12. verb (obsolete, transitive) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.

Synonyms

stumble stagger pitch pitching lunge reel keel swag careen shift prowl skunk

Etymology

Originally a nautical term, found in lee-larches (“the sudden and violent rolls of a ship to the leeward in high seas”), of unknown origin. Possibly the same as lurch (“to move stealthily, evade by stooping”) (see below), or from French lâcher (“to let go”).

From Middle English *lurchen (recorded only in Middle English lurcare, lurcard (“glutton”)), from Old French *lurcher, from Latin lurcō (“eat greedily, guzzle”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle High German slurken (“to slurp”) (whence German schlurken).

From Middle English lorchen, variant of Middle English lurken (“to lurk”). More at lurk.

From Middle English *lurche (implied in derivative lurching), from Old French lourche (“deceived, embarrassed; also the name of a game”), from Proto-West Germanic *lort (“left; left-handed; crooked; bent; warped; underhanded; deceitful; limping”). Cognate to English lirt.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up. [Obs.]
  2. noun An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
  3. noun A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
  4. verb To leave in the lurch; to cheat. [Obs.]

Etymology [L. lurcare, lurcari.]

Etymology [OF. lourche name of a game; as adj., deceived, embarrassed.]

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