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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chicane

/ʃɪˈkeɪn/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms chicanes chicaning chicaned

  1. noun A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.
  2. noun The use of dishonest means or subterfuge to achieve one's (especially political) goals; chicanery, trickery.
  3. noun (card games, chiefly bridge) The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.
  4. noun (motor racing) A sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve.
  5. noun (road transport) A raised area or other obstacle around which vehicles must drive, especially designed to reduce speed.
  6. verb (intransitive) To use chicanery, tricks, or subterfuge.
  7. verb (transitive) To deceive.
  8. adjective (uncommon) Chicana or Chicano, and of any gender, or of non-binary gender.
  9. noun (uncommon) A Chicana or Chicano of any gender, or of non-binary gender.

Synonyms

Chicanx Chican@ trickery chicanery guile wile shenanigan cheat chouse shaft screw jockey cavil carp

Etymology

Borrowed from French chicane.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; --specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior.
  2. verb To use shifts, cavils, or artifices. Burke.

Etymology [F., prob. earlier meaning a dispute, orig. in the game of mall (F. mail), fr. LGr. chaugan club or bat; or possibly ultimated fr. L. ciccus a trible.]

Etymology [Cf. F. chicaner. See Chicane, n.]

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