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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stocker

UK /ˈstɒkə/ · US /ˈstɑkɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms stockers

  1. noun (agriculture) Livestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring; often contrasted with a feeder when the focus is on intended disposition. “Will you keep those calves as feeders or only as stockers?”
  2. noun (automotive) A racecar in certain classes of auto racing whose origins are nominally or notionally related to factory-stock autos, such as stock car racing or super-stock drag racing.
  3. noun One who crafts gun stocks.
  4. noun One who stocks shelves with inventory.
  5. noun One who supplies raw material to a machine.
  6. proper noun A surname.

Etymology

From stock + -er.

* As an English, German and Swiss/Alemannic German surname, from the noun stock (“stock, tree stump”), see Stock.
* As a Dutch surname, from the noun stocker (“jailer”).
* As an English surname, from the noun stocker (“one who sells stockfish”).
* Also as an English surname, variant of Stoker.
* As an Irish surname, from mac an stocaire (“son of the trumpeter”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.

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