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

twang

/ˈtweɪ̯ŋ/ noun, verb

Forms twangs twanging twanged

  1. noun The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument.
  2. noun (music) A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars.
  3. noun A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice. “Despite having lived in Canada for 20 years, he still has that Eastern European twang in his voice.”
  4. noun (phonetics) The sound quality that appears in the human voice when the epilaryngeal tube is narrowed. “nasal twang”
  5. noun A sharp, pungent taste or flavor; sometimes, a disagreeable one specifically. “spicy twang”
  6. noun (vulgar, slang) An annoying or stupid person; especially, a recalcitrant.
  7. verb (ambitransitive) To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go.
  8. verb (intransitive) To have a nasal sound.
  9. verb (intransitive) To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent.
  10. verb (music) To play a stringed musical instrument by plucking and snapping.

Synonyms

nasality tang nasal twang

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare Middle English twengen (“to pinch, tweak”) (whence modern English twinge), from Old English twenġan (“to pinch, twinge”); Middle English twingen (“to afflict, torment, oppress”), from Old Norse þvinga (“to weigh down, oppress”); Old English twingan (“to force, press”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A tang. See Tang a state. [R.]
  2. verb To sound with a quick, harsh noise; to make the sound of a tense string pulled and suddenly let go; as, the bowstring twanged.
  3. verb To make to sound, as by pulling a tense string and letting it go suddenly.
  4. noun A harsh, quick sound, like that made by a stretched string when pulled and suddenly let go; as, the twang of a bowstring.

Etymology [Of imitative origin; cf. Tang a sharp sound, Tinkle.]

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

Sanskrit

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