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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poundage

noun, verb

Forms poundages poundaging poundaged

  1. noun (countable) A charge based on the weight of something in pounds.
  2. noun (countable) A charge based on the value of something in pounds sterling.
  3. noun (countable) A weight measured in pounds.
  4. noun (uncountable) Weight, especially body weight. “Eating less chocolate may help you lose a little poundage.”
  5. verb To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.
  6. noun (countable) a fee charged for keeping an animal in a pound, or for its release
  7. noun (uncountable) the keeping of an animal in a pound

Synonyms

impoundment impounding internment

Etymology

See 3d Pound.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.
  2. noun A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more.
  3. verb To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage. [R.]
  4. noun Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.

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