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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sus

/sʌs/ noun, adjective, verb, interjection, proper noun

Forms susser sussest susses sussing sussed SUSs SUSes

  1. noun (UK, informal) Suspicion (in terms of a sus law).
  2. adjective Suspicious; having suspicions or questions.
  3. adjective Suspicious; raising or causing people to have suspicions.
  4. adjective (often humorous) Acting in a borderline sexually inappropriate way, causing others to "suspect" them of being sexually attracted to someone and trying to hide it. “That guy is always acting sus with the boys—are you sure he's not gay?”
  5. verb (transitive, Internet slang) To suspend an account on social media (almost exclusively Twitter/X). “yeah, the account posting offensive stuff got sussed.”
  6. interjection (Internet slang, humorous, nonce word) A nonsense word commonly used in YouTube Poop by playing an audio clip forward and in reverse consecutively; said in reference to this editing style, and to describe palindromes and humorously symmetrized images.
  7. proper noun (obsolete) Synonym of Shush (“city in Khuzestan, Iran”).

Synonyms

joj sos Shush genus Sus

Etymology

Clipping of suspicion. Compare suss out, suss.

Clipping of suspicious.

Clipping of suspend.

Clipping of suspended.

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