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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mo

UK /məʊ/ · US /moʊ/ adverb, adjective, noun, numeral, proper noun

Also a form of more

Forms mos

  1. adverb (obsolete) To a greater degree.
  2. adverb (now dialectal) Further, longer.
  3. adjective (archaic, dialectal) Greater in amount, quantity, or number (of discrete objects, as opposed to more, which was applied to substances)
  4. noun (slang) A homosexual.
  5. noun (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A moustache.
  6. noun (prison slang) A molester.
  7. noun (slang) A moron.
  8. numeral The cardinal number occurring after el gro el do el (↋↋↋) and before mo one (1001) in a duodecimal system. Written 1000, decimal value 1728.
  9. proper noun A diminutive of the male given names Mohammed, Moses, Maurice, Morris, Moritz, and Mortimer.
  10. proper noun A diminutive of the female given names Marjorie, Maureen, Moira, and Monica.
  11. proper noun A surname from Chinese.

Synonyms

bit sec tick bat of an eye blink of an eye crack eyeblink flash glimpse half a mo instant jiff jiffy jot minute moment New York minute New York second no time second molybdenum atomic number 42 Missouri Show Me State

Etymology

From Middle English mo, from Old English mā, from Proto-Germanic *maiz, from a comparative form of Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-. Cognate with Swedish mer, Danish mer; and with Irish mó, Albanian më. See also more, most.

Clipping of homo, itself a short form of homosexual.

Clipping of moustache.

Clipping.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective More; --usually, more in number. [Obs.]
  2. adjective A suffix added to the names of certain numerals or to the numerals themselves, to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a sheet of paper; as, sixteenmo or 16mo; eighteenmo or 18mo. It is taken from the Latin forms similarly used; as, duodecimo, sextodecimo, etc. A small circle, placed after the number and near its top, is often used for -mo; as, 16°, 18°, etc.

Etymology [AS. ma. See More.]

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