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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tee

/ˈtiː/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms tees teeing teed

  1. noun The name of the Latin script letter T/t.
  2. noun Something shaped like the letter T. “angles and tees”
  3. noun (computing) The process of redirecting output to multiple destinations.
  4. verb (computing) To redirect output to multiple destinations.
  5. noun (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
  6. noun (sports) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is kicked or hit.
  7. noun (curling) The target area of a curling rink.
  8. noun The mark at which players aim in quoits.
  9. verb (golf) To place a ball on a tee
  10. verb (obsolete) To teach, educate, train, bring up.
  11. noun A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries.
  12. proper noun An Ogoni language spoken in Nigeria.
  13. proper noun A Chinese surname from Hokkien.

Synonyms

tee up TOE teeing ground football tee golf tee

Etymology

* From Middle English, from Old English te, from Latin tē (the name of the letter T).
* (computing): By analogy with a T-shaped pipe that sends fluids in two directions.

First attested in the 17th century as teaz, back-formation from obsolete Scots teaz, later reanalyzed as a plural.

From Middle English teen, from Old English tēon (which was contracted from earlier tēohan, from Proto-West Germanic *teuhan.

From Burmese ထီး (hti:, “umbrella”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; --so called because it resembles the letter T in shape.
  2. noun The space from within which the ball must be struck in beginning the play for each hole.

Etymology [Cf. Icel. tja to show, mark.]

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