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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nonce

UK /nɒns/ · US /nɑns/ noun, adjective

Forms nonces

  1. noun (archaic, now only in for the nonce) The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose. “That will do for the nonce, but we'll need a better answer for the long term.”
  2. noun (lexicography) A nonce word. “I had thought that the term was a nonce, but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors.”
  3. noun (cryptography) A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
  4. adjective One-off; produced or created for a single occasion or use. Denoting something occurring once.
  5. noun (UK, Ireland, derogatory) A sex offender, especially one who is guilty of sexual offences against children.
  6. noun (by extension) A pedophile.
  7. noun (UK, Ireland, prison slang, derogatory) A police informer, one who betrays a criminal enterprise
  8. noun (UK, Ireland, slang, derogatory) A stupid or worthless person. “Shut it, ya nonce!”

Synonyms

snitch time being

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English nonse, nones, a rebracketing of Middle English to þen anes, for þen anes (to/for the once (i.e., the one occasion or instance)), from the dative singular neuter of þe. The cryptography sense is commonly said to be a contraction of number used once, although this is probably incorrect.

Unknown, derived from British criminal slang. Several origins have been proposed; possibly derived from dialectal nonce, nonse (“stupid, worthless individual”) (but this cannot be shown to predate nonce "child-molester" and is likely a toned-down usage of the same insult), or Nance, nance (“effeminate man, homosexual”), from nancy or nancyboy. The rhyme with ponce has also been noted.
As prison slang also said to be an acronym for "Not On Normal Communal Exercise" (Stevens 2012), but this is likely a backronym.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; --chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce.

Etymology [For the nonce, OE. for the nones, a corruption of for then ones, where n. in then is a relic of AS. m in , dat. of the article and demonstrative pronoun, E. the. See For, Once, and The.]

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