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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argufy

verb

Forms argufies argufying argufied argify

  1. verb (intransitive) To argue without any aim; to dispute; to disagree.
  2. verb (transitive) To dispute (a point, fact, etc.), to argue about (something).
  3. verb (ambitransitive, archaic) To reason (something) out, to fully consider, think through.
  4. verb (transitive, archaic) To persuade (someone) through argument.
  5. verb (transitive, archaic) To weary (someone) with arguing.
  6. verb (transitive, archaic) To be evidence of (something).
  7. verb (intransitive, archaic) To be of importance or relevance; to make a difference, to be of use.

Synonyms

wrangle quarrel dispute scrap altercate

Etymology

Argue + -fy.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To argue pertinaciously. [Colloq.] Halliwell.
  2. verb To signify. [Colloq.]

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