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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barbecue

UK /ˈbɑːbɪˌkjuː/ · US /ˈbɑɹbɪˌkju/ noun, verb

Forms barbecues barbecuing barbecueing barbecued barbeque bar-be-que bar-b-que bar-B-Q barbie BBQ 'cue 'que que

  1. noun A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium. “We cooked our food on the barbecue.”
  2. noun A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus. “We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.”
  3. noun Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded. “She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw.”
  4. noun (dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
  5. noun A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
  6. noun (obsolete) A framework of sticks.
  7. verb (transitive, intransitive) To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
  8. verb (transitive, intransitive) To grill.
  9. verb (slang, somewhat derogatory, transitive) To kill or destroy using high heat or fire; to cook; to burn.

Synonyms

braai buccan compare grill cookout barbeque cook out

Etymology

From mid-17th century. Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”), the raised wooden structure the natives used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally “meal of roasted meat or fish”. Doublet of balbacua and barbacoa.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
  2. noun A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.
  3. verb To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.
  4. verb To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog. Send me, gods, a whole hog barbecued. Pope.

Etymology [In the language of Indians of Guiana, a frame on which all kinds of flesh and fish are roasted or smoke-dried.]

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