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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sundowner

noun

Forms sundowners

  1. noun (Australia, obsolete) An itinerant worker, such as a swagman, who arrives at a farm too late in the day to do any work, but readily accepts food and lodging.
  2. noun (Australia, obsolete) An itinerant worker, a swagman.
  3. noun (nautical) A sea captain who shows harsh discipline by requiring all hands to be on board by sundown.
  4. noun (medicine, colloquial) A patient, usually demented, who tends to become agitated in the evening.
  5. noun (originally colonial slang, especially southern Africa) A cocktail consumed at sunset, or to signify the end of the day.
  6. noun A cocktail party held in the early evening.
  7. noun A physician employed by the government who practises for private fees after his official hours.
  8. noun Any worker who practises for private fees after official hours.

Etymology

From sundown + -er.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; --so called from his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; --called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).

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