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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pee

/ˈpiː/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of pea

Forms pees peeing peed pea

  1. noun Urine.
  2. noun (chiefly Canada, US, Australia) An act of urination. “He was dying for a pee.”
  3. verb (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate. “The schoolboy called out to his friend while he was peeing in the urinal.”
  4. verb (reflexive) To urinate on oneself.
  5. verb (transitive) To urinate in or on something, particularly clothing. “I was so excited, I peed the bed!”
  6. verb (mildly vulgar, intransitive, colloquial) To drizzle. “It's peeing with rain.”
  7. noun The name of the Latin script letter P/p.
  8. noun (UK, Ireland, colloquial) Pence; penny (a quantity of money) “I bought these carrots for fifty pee.”
  9. noun (nautical) The bill of an anchor.
  10. noun The sliding weight on a steelyard.
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

urine wee urinate p pence penny piss piddle weewee water peeing pissing make puddle micturate pee-pee make water relieve oneself take a leak spend a penny wee-wee pass water

Etymology

The initial letter of piss. Compare eff.

Spelling of the abbreviation p of pence.

See peak.

Variant of Pea.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun See 1st Pea.
  2. noun Bill of an anchor. See Peak, 3 (c).

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