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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lynch

/lɪnt͡ʃ/ verb, proper noun

Forms lynches lynching lynched Lynchs

  1. verb (transitive) To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging and backed by a mob.
  2. verb (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To castigate severely.
  3. proper noun A surname from Irish.
  4. proper noun A home rule-class city in Harlan County, Kentucky.
  5. proper noun An unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland.
  6. proper noun A township and village therein, in Boyd County, Nebraska.
  7. proper noun A tributary of the North Fork Rivanna River, Virginia.
  8. proper noun A hamlet in Berkeley parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref ST6799).
  9. proper noun A hamlet in Overton parish, Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU5049).
  10. proper noun A hamlet in Selworthy parish, Somerset, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref SS9047; West Lynch and East Lynch also appear on OS maps).

Synonyms

string up

Etymology

First attested 1835, from Lynch law, which appeared in 1811. There is a popular claim that it was named after William Lynch, but equally strong arguments would have it named after Charles Lynch. For the surname, see Lynch. Ultimately a possible doublet of linch.

* As an Irish surname, from Ó Loingsigh (“descendant of Loingseach”), from long (“ship”).
* Also as an Irish surname of Anglo-Norman origin, from De Línse, Gaelicized from Norman/French de Lench, from Lench in Worchestershire, from Old English hlinc (“hill”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.

Etymology [See Note under Lynch law.]

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