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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notch

UK /nɒtʃ/ · US /nɑtʃ/ noun, verb

Forms notches notching notched

  1. noun A V-shaped cut.
  2. noun Such a cut, used for keeping a record. “The notches in that tribe's warrior axe handles stand for killed enemies.”
  3. noun An indentation.
  4. noun A mountain pass; a defile.
  5. noun (slang) The female primary sex organ, vulva.
  6. noun (US slang) A woman.
  7. noun (finance) A discontinuous change in a taxation schedule.
  8. noun (informal) A level or degree. “This car is a notch better than the other.”
  9. verb (transitive) To cut a notch in (something).
  10. verb (transitive) To record (a score or similar) by making notches on something. “The tribe's hunters notch their kills by notches on each's axe's handle.”
  11. verb (transitive) To join by means of notches.
  12. verb (transitive, informal) To achieve (something); to add to one's score or record of successes. “The team notched a pair of shutout wins on Sunday.”
  13. verb (transitive) Synonym of nock (“to fit (an arrow) to a bow”).
  14. verb (transitive) To change in small graduations. “to notch back a salary”

Synonyms

indent notch up nock pass mountain pass nick snick

Etymology

Recorded since 1577, probably a rebracketing of an otch, from Middle French oche (“notch”), itself from the Old French verb ochier (“to notch”), of uncertain origin, but possibly related to French hocher and English nick (“small cut, notch”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.
  2. noun A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.
  3. verb To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick.
  4. verb To fit the notch of (an arrow) to the string.

Etymology [Akin to nock; cf. OD. nock, OSw. nocka. Cf. Nick a notch.]

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