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

ton

/tɔ̃/ noun

Forms tons

  1. noun The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100 pounds avoirdupois each.
  2. noun The long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg), 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
  3. noun The metric ton of 1000 kilograms (about 2205 lb), 10 quintals of 100 kilograms each.
  4. noun The measurement ton of (US) 40 or (UK) 42 cubic feet (about 1.1 or 1.2 m³).
  5. noun The register ton of 100 cubic feet (about 2.83 m³).
  6. noun (figuratively) Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything. “I’ve got a ton of work to do.”
  7. noun (HVAC) A unit of thermal power equal to 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.5 kW), approximating the idealized rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of 1 short ton of ice per day at 0°C. “Their main problem is that they somehow believe that a 12-ton unit can handle this entire building.”
  8. noun 100 pounds sterling.
  9. noun Fashion, the current style, the vogue.
  10. noun Fashionable society; those in style.
  11. noun Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.

Synonyms

tonne metric ton megagram shitton fuckton abundance battalion arseload assload bellyload boatload brimful busload bucketful bucketload butt-ton bumload buttload cartload crapflood short ton net ton long ton gross ton

Etymology

Variant of tun (“cask”), influenced by Old French tonne (“ton”).

Borrowed from French ton (“manner”), from Latin tonus. Doublet of tone, tune, and tonus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. pl. of Toe. Chaucer.
  2. noun The common tunny, or house mackerel.
  3. noun The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton. Byron.
  4. noun A measure of weight or quantity. Specifically: -- (a) The weight of twenty hundredweight.

Etymology [Cf. Tunny.]

Etymology [F. See Tone.]

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