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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sot

/sɒt/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms sots sotting sotted sot sot

  1. noun (archaic) Stupid person; fool.
  2. noun Drunkard.
  3. verb To drink until one becomes drunk
  4. verb To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
  5. adjective (Singapore, colloquial, vulgar) Upset, unhappy or bitter about something.
  6. adjective (Singlish, Manglish) Insane, crazy, screwed up.
  7. verb (Singlish, Manglish, intransitive) To short circuit, to go haywire or malfunction.
  8. verb (Singlish, Manglish, intransitive) To go crazy.
  9. noun (broadcasting) Audio recorded to accompany vision, as opposed to audio recorded later, such as voice-over.
  10. noun (broadcasting, journalism) Audio captured from a person who is on camera, such as an interviewee; a sound bite.

Synonyms

alcoholic fool souse suck-pint drunkard drunk rummy inebriate wino

Etymology

From Middle English sot, from Old English sot, sott (“foolish, stupid”), from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of obscure origin and relation. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to French zut! (“damn it!”).
Compare Middle Low German sot (“insane, foolish, stupid”), Middle Dutch sot ("foolish, absurd, stupid"; > modern Dutch zot), French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”).

From Middle English sotten, from the adjective (see above).

Compare sod (vulgar interjection).

From Cantonese short (sot¹, “crazy”), itself a clipping of English short circuit.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt. [Obs.] outh.
  2. noun A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard. "A brutal sot." Granville.
  3. adjective Sottish; foolish; stupid; dull. [Obs.] "Rich, but sot." Marston.
  4. verb To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot. [R.]

Etymology [F., fr. LL. sottus; of unknown origin, cf. Ir. sotal pride, soithir proud, or Chald. & NHeb. shoten foolish.]

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