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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slat

/slæt/ noun, verb

Forms slats slatting slatted

  1. noun A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic. “slats of a window blind”
  2. noun (aviation) A control surface that extends forwards and downwards from the leading edge of a wing, leaving a gap between it and the leading edge, in order to modify the airflow around the wing so as to allow flight at a higher angle of attack without stalling, lowering the aircraft's stall speed.
  3. noun (skiing, slang) A ski.
  4. noun A thin piece of stone; a slate.
  5. noun A drop (of rain or water), a splash.
  6. verb To construct or provide with slats.
  7. verb To slap or strike; to beat, pummel; to hurl or throw down violently.
  8. verb To throw (something, especially water or liquid) down; to slam or splash (something) down.
  9. verb (of rain or other water) To fall; to beat (against something).
  10. verb (UK, dialectal) To split; to crack.
  11. verb To set on; to incite.

Synonyms

billet flitch spline batten

Etymology

From Middle English slatte, sklatte, sklat, sclat, from Old French esclat (“piece broken or split off, shiver, splinter”), from Old French esclater (“to split, burst”), from Frankish *slaitijan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to rend, split”). Doublet of slate and éclat.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind.
  2. verb To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently. [Prov. Eng.
  3. verb To split; to crack. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Etymology [CF. Slot a bar.]

Etymology [OE. slatten; cf. Icel. sletta to slap, to dab.]

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