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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popcorn

UK /ˈpɒp.kɔːn/ · US /ˈpɑp.kɔɹn/ noun, verb

Forms popcorns popcorning popcorned pop-corn popped corn

  1. noun (chiefly uncountable) A snack food made from corn or maize kernels popped by dry heating. “My friends and I ordered popcorn during the interval of the movie.”
  2. noun (chiefly uncountable) A variety of corn or maize with a hard outer hull that, along with the type of starch it contains, makes it suitable for popping. “That farm grows popcorn.”
  3. noun (countable) A serving of popcorn. “I'll have a small popcorn.”
  4. noun (countable, rare) A piece of popcorn. “She keeps dropping her popcorns.”
  5. noun (attributive, by extension) A bite-size food preparation made by battering and deep-frying one or more ingredients, most often chicken. “popcorn chicken”
  6. noun (attributive, figurative) Entertainment that is, or has the potential to be, popular but is vapid and provides little intellectual or artistic merit. “The movie was entertaining enough, but it was just popcorn entertainment.”
  7. noun (figurative, humorous) Entertainment for observers. “If they get in a fight, I'm just going to sit back and enjoy the popcorn.”
  8. noun (knitting) A kind of stitch similar to a bobble.
  9. verb (of a guinea pig or chinchilla) To stand or jump up quickly.
  10. verb To pop repeatedly, like popcorn cooking.
  11. verb (knitting, rare) To use the popcorn stitch.

Synonyms

maizypop popmaize Zea mays everta

Etymology

Short for popped corn. By surface analysis, pop + corn.

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