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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ballooning

/bəˈluːnɪŋ/ adjective, noun

Also a form of balloon

Forms balloonings

  1. adjective Growing rapidly as a balloon. “The ballooning economy was out of control.”
  2. adjective Rising high in the air. “The cricketer hit a ballooning shot for six runs.”
  3. noun The act of something that swells or expands.
  4. noun (uncountable) The sport or hobby of flying in a hot-air balloon. “When he retired, he took up ballooning.”
  5. noun The mechanical kiting used by spiders, mites, caterpillars, etc. to travel through the air.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
  2. noun The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales. [U.S.]

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