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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manila

UK /məˈnɪl.ə/ · US /məˈnɪlə/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms manilas Maynila May-nilad Manilla

  1. adjective Made of manila paper or material like it. “a manila envelope”
  2. adjective Yellow-brown; colored like manila paper.
  3. noun Fiber made from abaca (Manila hemp), used to make ropes and manila paper.
  4. noun The yellow-brown color of manila.
  5. noun A kind of cheroot manufactured in Manila.
  6. proper noun The capital city of the Philippines; the regional capital of Metro Manila, in the island of Luzon.
  7. proper noun (loosely) Metro Manila, the National Capital Region (NCR).
  8. proper noun (loosely) the entirety of Luzon.
  9. proper noun (figuratively) The national government or administrative authority of the Philippines.
  10. proper noun A small town, the county seat of Daggett County, Utah, United States.
  11. proper noun A census-designated place in Humboldt County, California, United States.
  12. proper noun A city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States.
  13. noun Venerupis philippinarum; a Pacific clam.

Synonyms

manila paper manilla manilla paper capital of the Philippines

Etymology

From Manila.

From Spanish Manila, from Tagalog Maynila, from may (“there is”) + nila (“indigo”), Tagalog nila from Sanskrit नील (nīla).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Manila or Manilla, the capital of the Philippine Islands; made in, or exported from, that city. Manila cheroot or cigar, a cheroot or cigar made of tobacco grown in the Philippine Islands.

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