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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oscar

UK /ˈɒs.kə/ · US /ˈɑs.kɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms oscars

  1. noun A cichlid fish of species Astronotus ocellatus, native to South America, sometimes kept in aquariums.
  2. proper noun A male given name from Irish or Old English.
  3. proper noun A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic], a rare anglicization of Mac Oscair (literally “son of Oscar”) (McCusker).
  4. proper noun An unincorporated community in Kentucky; named for Kentucky Representative Oscar Turner.
  5. proper noun An unincorporated community in Louisiana.
  6. proper noun An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for early settler Oscar Bradford.
  7. proper noun An unincorporated community in Oklahoma; named for local rancher Oscar W. Seay.
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
  10. noun (informal) An Academy Award.
  11. noun A statuette awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
  12. noun (rhyming slang, Australia, New Zealand) cash; money.

Synonyms

marble cichlid velvet cichlid Academy Award

Etymology

Exact origin uncertain. Resuscitated by James Mcpherson in The Works of Ossian (1765). Napoleon, an admirer of the Ossianic poems, chose it for his godson Oscar Bernadotte, who became a king of Sweden.
The modern given name is a conflation of two unrelated names: first, Middle Irish Oscar (the name of Fionn Mac Cumhaill's grandson in Irish mythology), from Middle Irish os (“deer”) + cara (“friend”); and second, Old English Ōscār, Ōsgār (personal name, literally “spear of the gods/spear of God”), from Old English ōs (“god”) and gār (“spear”) (see Oswald). Compare German Ansgar (personal name), Danish Asker, Asger (personal name), Norwegian Asgeir (personal name), Icelandic Ásgeir (personal name).
(Academy Award): Disputed. Said to have been named by actress Bette Davis after her first husband, Harmon Oscar Nelson, or by secretary Margaret Herrick after her cousin Oscar Pierce.

Shortened form of Oscar Asche.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “oscar”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details