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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rankle

/ˈɹæŋ.kəl/ verb, noun

Forms rankles rankling rankled

  1. verb (transitive or intransitive) To cause irritation, bitterness or acrimony. “My colleague's gratuitous criticism still rankles with me.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To fester. “a splinter rankles in the flesh”
  3. noun (rare) A festering, embittering object or condition, either mental, or a physical sore or ulcer.

Synonyms

embitter irritate eat into fret grate

Etymology

From Middle English ranklen, ranclen, from Old French rancler, räoncler, draoncler (“to ulcerate, to form a boil”), from Old French draoncle (“a boil”), from Latin dracunculus (“little serpent”), diminutive of Latin dracō (“serpent, dragon”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; --used literally and figuratively.
  2. verb To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; --used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom.
  3. verb To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

Etymology [From Rank, a.]

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