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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slog

UK /slɒɡ/ · US /slɑɡ/ noun, verb

Forms slogs slogging slogged

  1. noun (countable, uncountable, chiefly UK, Australia and Canada) A long, tedious walk or march.
  2. noun (countable, uncountable, chiefly UK, Australia and Canada, by extension) A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.
  3. noun (countable) A book or other media that is difficult to get through due to dullness, density, or lack of narrative momentum.
  4. noun (countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
  5. verb (intransitive) To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance.
  6. verb (intransitive, by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.
  7. verb To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat. “It was like being slogged by a heavyweight boxer.”

Synonyms

ambulate navigate pedestrianize raik plug away peg away keep one's nose to the grindstone keep one's shoulder to the wheel footslog plod trudge pad tramp slug swig

Etymology

Probably a variation of slug (“to hit very hard”) or slough.
Possibly related to slag, seen in the North Germanic languages, in association with the third verb and second noun definition.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To hit hard, esp. with little attention to aim or the like, as in cricket or boxing; to slug. [Cant or Slang]

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