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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scallop

UK /ˈskɒləp/ · US /ˈskɑləp/ noun, verb

Forms scallops scalloping scalloped scollop

  1. noun Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pectinoidea.
  2. noun One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.
  3. noun (cooking) A fillet of meat, escalope.
  4. noun (cooking, UK, Ireland, Australia, regional) A battered and deep-fried round potato slice.
  5. noun (cooking, UK, regional, rare) A sautéed potato (a shallow-fried round potato slice).
  6. noun A dish shaped like a scallop shell.
  7. verb To create or form an edge in the shape of a crescent or multiple crescents.
  8. verb (transitive) To bake in a casserole (gratin), originally in a scallop shell; especially used in form scalloped
  9. verb (intransitive) To harvest scallops

Synonyms

scollop sea scallop potato cake potato scallop fritter smack fairy chip potato fritter crenation crenature crenel crenelle escallop cutlet

Etymology

From Old French escalope (“shell”). Doublet of escalope. Related to scale and shell.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidæ. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobæus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell.
  2. noun One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.
  3. verb To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n., 2.
  4. verb To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below.

Etymology [OF. escalope a shell, probably of German or Dutch origin, and akin to E. scale of a fish; cf. D. schelp shell. See Scale of a fish, and cf. Escalop.]

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