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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patten

UK /ˈpat(ə)n/ · US /ˈpæt(ə)n/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms pattens pattening pattened

  1. noun Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs.
  2. noun (now historical) One of various wooden attachments used to lift a shoe above wet or muddy ground.
  3. noun (obsolete) A circular wooden plank attached to a horse's foot to prevent it from sinking into a bog while plowing.
  4. noun (now UK dialectal) An ice skate.
  5. noun (historical) An iron hoop attached to a person's boot in cases of hip-joint disease.
  6. noun The base of a pillar.
  7. verb (intransitive) To go about wearing pattens.
  8. proper noun A surname.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in Thomas County, Georgia, United States.
  10. proper noun A town, village, and census-designated place therein, in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.

Synonyms

clog geta sabot

Etymology

From Middle English patyn, patin, pateyn, from Old French patin, from patte (“paw, hoof”), from Latin patta, of imitative origin.

Variant forms.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud. The patten now supports each frugal dame. Gay.
  2. noun A stilt. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Etymology [F. patin a high-heeled shoe, fr. patte paw, foot. Cf. Panton, Patté.]

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