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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scissor

UK /ˈsɪzə/ · US /ˈsɪzɚ/ noun, verb

Also a form of scissors

Forms scissors scissoring scissored

  1. noun (rare, chiefly when detached) One blade of a pair of scissors.
  2. noun (India) Scissors.
  3. verb (transitive) To cut using, or as if using, scissors.
  4. verb (transitive) To excise or expunge something from a text. “The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.”
  5. verb (transitive, obsolete) To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy.
  6. verb (transitive, intransitive) To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs. “The runner scissored over the hurdles.”
  7. verb (intransitive, sex) To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
  8. verb (skating) To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.

Etymology

From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”), from Old French cisoires, cisours, cisur, from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere, scissus (“to split”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cut with scissors or shears; to prepare with the aid of scissors. Massinger.

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