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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bailey

/ˈbeɪli/ noun, proper noun

Forms baileys Bailie Baily Bayly Bayley Bailee Baylee

  1. noun The outer wall of a feudal castle.
  2. noun The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.
  3. noun (in certain proper names) A prison or court of justice. “the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester”
  4. noun An argument which is controversial and more difficult to defend (in the context of a motte and bailey fallacy).
  5. proper noun (countable) A surname.
  6. proper noun An English surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn originating as an occupation] for a steward or official.
  7. proper noun An English topographic surname from someone who lived by a bailey (the outer wall of a castle).
  8. proper noun An Irish surname originating as an occupation, an anglicization of Báille (“bailie”).
  9. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.
  10. proper noun (chiefly US) A female given name transferred from the surname.
  11. proper noun A sea area, to the north of Rockall, centred on the former Bill Bailey Bank (now Rockall Basin), located in the Atlantic.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Park County, Colorado.
  13. noun An apple cultivar from New York

Synonyms

Pearl Bailey Pearl Mae Bailey Nathan Bailey Nathaniel Bailey

Etymology

From Old French baile (“palisade, enclosure”), from Latin bacula, plural of baculum (“stick, rod”).

(English topographic surname): See bailey (“outer castle wall”)

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The outer wall of a feudal castle. [Obs.]
  2. noun The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. [Obs.]

Etymology [The same word as bail line of palisades; cf. LL. ballium bailey, OF. bail, baille, a palisade, baillier to inclose, shut.]

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