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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stash

/stæʃ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms stashes stashing stashed 'stache stache

  1. noun (countable) A collection, sometimes hidden. “They had quite a stash of food saved up for emergencies.”
  2. noun (countable, US, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) A place where drugs are stored. “The dealers managed to store the dope in the stash just in time to avoid being caught by the police.”
  3. noun (uncountable, UK, slang) Clothing or other items branded with a particular university club or society's logo. “We've now ordered stash for everyone who said they wanted some.”
  4. noun (countable, textiles) A collection of yarn or other materials not yet allocated to any particular craft project.
  5. verb (transitive) To hide or store away for later use. “He stashed his liquor in the cabinet under the bar.”
  6. noun (nonstandard, informal, slang) A mustache.
  7. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

cache reserve hoard merch swag hive up lay away squirrel away

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a blend of stick + cache or stow + cache.

Apheretic clipping of mustache.

Americanized spelling of German Stasch.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “stash”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details