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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pint

/paɪnt/ noun, proper noun

Forms pints

  1. noun (UK, Commonwealth) 20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint).
  2. noun 16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
  3. noun approximately 33.6 cubic inches [550.6 cubic centimeters] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
  4. noun (Hungary) 1.696 liters.
  5. noun (formerly medicine, now chiefly some US bars and ice cream sellers) 12 fluid ounces.
  6. noun (UK, metonymic) A pint of milk. “Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.”
  7. noun (UK, metonymic) A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint. “A couple of pints please, barman.”
  8. proper noun A surname from Dutch.

Synonyms

dry pint

Etymology

From Middle English pinte, from Old French pinte, assumed from Vulgar Latin *pincta (“a mark used to indicate a level of quantity against a larger measure”), from Latin picta (“painted”), from Latin pingō (“paint”, verb). Doublet of pinto and Pinto.

Borrowed from Dutch Pint, a metonymic occupational surname for an official who controlled measures.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills, --used in liquid and dry measures. See Quart.
  2. noun The laughing gull. [Prov. Eng.]

Etymology [OE. pinte, F. pinte, fr. Sp. pinta spot, mark, pint, fr. pintar to paint; a mark for a pint prob. having been made on or in a larger measure. See Paint.]

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