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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smoke out

verb

Forms smokes out smoking out smoked out

  1. verb (transitive) To drive out (something or somebody) using smoke. “We smoked the critters out of their hole.”
  2. verb (transitive, figurative, idiomatic, by extension) To expose (something or somebody). “The culprit will be smoked out by the end of the day.”
  3. verb (slang, transitive) To offer to smoke cannabis with someone; to smoke cannabis with someone. “I didn't have any weed, so Joe smoked me out with his stash.”
  4. verb (slang) To smoke too much (usually cannabis); to become too stoned. “He was smoked out and really needed to take a break.”
  5. verb (slang, usually passive) To run out of tobacco or cannabis; to be emptied of tobacco or cannabis. “We passed the bong around until it was smoked out.”

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