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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balmoral

/bælˈmɒɹəl/ noun, proper noun

Forms balmorals

  1. noun A Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume but no brim; a blue bonnet.
  2. noun A heavy walking shoe.
  3. noun (US) An Oxford shoe.
  4. noun A figured woollen petticoat.
  5. proper noun A castle and associated estate in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, that is a private residence of the British sovereign (OS grid ref NO2595).
  6. proper noun A suburb of Galashiels, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4836).
  7. proper noun A suburban area in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  8. proper noun A settlement in the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia.
  9. proper noun A community in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood, Manitoba.
  10. proper noun A community in Bois-Joli village, Restigouche County, New Brunswick.
  11. proper noun A parish in Restigouche County, New Brunswick.
  12. proper noun A community in Haldimand County, Ontario.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Tensas Parish, Louisiana.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Frederick County, Maryland.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Hamilton County, Tennessee.

Synonyms

bluebonnet

Etymology

From Balmoral Castle, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Castle name first appears in writing as Bouchmorale in 1451. Formed from a combination of Old Irish both (“hut, bothy, cot; cabin”) and an uncertain second element. The second element may be Pictish, equivalent to Welsh mawr (“large”) + Welsh iâl (“pastureland”).

From Irish Baile Mhóireil, baile + mór, from Old Irish mór (“big, great”)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress.
  2. noun A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front.

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