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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sandwich

UK /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/ · US /ˈsænˌ(d)wɪt͡ʃ/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun

Forms sandwiches sandwichs sandwiching sandwiched sammich samwich sangwich

  1. noun A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.
  2. noun (by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
  3. noun (UK) A layer cake or sandwich cake.
  4. noun (archaic) A sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board).
  5. verb (transitive) To place (an item) physically between two other, usually flat, items.
  6. verb (transitive, figuratively) To put or set between two other events in time.
  7. verb (transitive, sex) To double penetrate.
  8. verb (transitive, informal) To feed sandwiches to.
  9. verb (intransitive, rare) To eat sandwiches.
  10. adjective (US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.
  11. proper noun A town and civil parish with a town council in Dover district, Kent, southeastern England, one of the historic Cinque Ports (OS grid ref TR3258).
  12. proper noun An English habitational surname originating from this town.
  13. proper noun A city in DeKalb County and Kendall County, Illinois, United States.
  14. proper noun A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.
  15. proper noun A town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States.

Synonyms

butty grinder piece sambo sammich sammie sammo sanger sango sarmie sarnie

Etymology

Named after its supposed inventor, the Earl of Sandwich (see Sandwich).

The family name is from Old English Sandwīċ, from sand + wīċ (“wick, settlement, harbour, hamlet”), equivalent to sand + -wich.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.
  2. verb To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.

Etymology [Named from the Earl of Sandwich.]

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