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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terry

/ˈtɛɹi/ noun, proper noun

Forms terries Tarry Torry Teri Terri Terrie

  1. noun A type of coarse cotton fabric covered in many small raised loops that is used to make towels, bathrobes and some types of nappy/diaper.
  2. noun (Commonwealth, dated) Any makeshift cloth nappy folded from a large piece of absorbent fabric and held in place by a nappy pin or nappy fastener; a flat nappy.
  3. noun (euphemistic) A terrorist
  4. proper noun A surname originating as a patronymic from the medieval Norman given name Thierry, a cognate of the English Derek.
  5. proper noun A male given name from the Germanic languages transferred back from the surname, or a diminutive of Terence or of any of its alternative forms.
  6. proper noun A male given name from Latin derived from the Latin for the third ("tertius") given to a third child or a child whose name has the suffix III.
  7. proper noun A female given name, diminutive of Teresa or any of its alternative forms.
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in Leopold Township, Perry County, Indiana.
  9. proper noun A township in Finney County, Kansas.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana.
  11. proper noun A town in Hinds County, Mississippi.

Synonyms

terry diaper terry nappy terrycloth terry cloth Dame Ellen Terry Dame Alice Ellen Terry

Etymology

Of uncertain origin, possibly French tiré (“drawn out”), past participle of tirer (“to draw out”).

Contraction of terrorist.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A kind of heavy colored fabric, either all silk, or silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used for upholstery and trimmings.

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