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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straggle

/ˈstɹæɡl̩/ verb, noun

Forms straggles straggling straggled

  1. verb (intransitive) To stray, rove, or wander from a normal course and others of its kind. “He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.”
  2. verb (intransitive) To act in a disorderly and irregular way.
  3. verb Grow or hang messily. “The roses had been allowed to straggle across the path.”
  4. verb To move along slowly so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front.
  5. noun An irregular, spread-out group.
  6. noun An outlier; something that has strayed beyond the normal limits.

Synonyms

sidetrack depart digress sprawl

Etymology

From Middle English straglen, of uncertain origin, possibly from (or cognate to) dialectal Norwegian stragla (“to walk laboriously”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle. Dryden.
  2. verb To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.
  3. noun The act of straggling. [R.] Carlyle.

Etymology [Freq. of OE. straken to roam, to stroke. See Stroke, v. t.]

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