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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

Stuart

UK /ˈstjuːət/ · US /ˈst(j)uɚt/ proper noun, noun, adjective

Also a form of Stewart

Forms Stuarts Stewart

  1. proper noun A Scottish surname originating as an occupation, a variant of Stewart.
  2. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. proper noun A city, the county seat of Martin County, Florida.
  4. proper noun A city in Lincoln Township, Adair County and Stuart Township, Guthrie County, Iowa.
  5. proper noun A township and village therein, in Holt County, Nebraska.
  6. proper noun A town in Hughes County, Oklahoma.
  7. proper noun A town, the county seat of Patrick County, Virginia.
  8. proper noun A coastal suburb in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
  9. noun A monarch or other member of the British royal family during the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, from the reign of James VI and I to Anne.
  10. noun (often spelled Stewart) A monarch or other member of the Scottish royal family from 1371 to 1603.
  11. noun Anyone who lived in the Stuart era of Great Britain.
  12. adjective From or typical of the era between 1603 and 1714 when the House of Stuart ruled Great Britain, not always including the Interregnum from 1649 to 1660 when the Stuarts were exiled.

Synonyms

Gilbert Stuart Gilbert Charles Stuart

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