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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sulky

/ˈsʌlki/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms sulkier sulkiest sulkies

  1. adjective (often derogatory) silent and withdrawn after being upset “the sulky child”
  2. noun A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in harness racing.
  3. noun Any carriage seating only the driver.
  4. proper noun A town in the City of Ballarat and the Shire of Hepburn, central western Victoria, Australia.

Synonyms

sullen morose huffish sluggish glooming gloomy gloomful

Etymology

The vehicle is so called as it obliges the rider to be alone, as though sulking.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Moodly silent; sullen; sour; obstinate; morose; splenetic.
  2. noun A light two-wheeled carriage for a single person.

Etymology [See Sulkiness, and cf. Sulky, n.]

Etymology [From Sulky, a.; -- so called from the owner's desire of riding alone.]

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