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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sausage

UK /ˈsɒsɪd͡ʒ/ · US /ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/ noun, verb

Forms sausages sausaging sausaged

  1. noun A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing.
  2. noun An individual item of this food.
  3. noun A sausage-shaped thing.
  4. noun (vulgar slang) A penis.
  5. noun (informal) A term of endearment. “my little sausage”
  6. noun (military, archaic) A saucisse.
  7. noun A dachshund; sausage dog.
  8. verb (transitive) To squeeze (something) tightly into in a rolled or sausage-like form.
  9. verb (transitive) To squeeze (something) into something tightly fitting.
  10. verb (transitive, with on) To fit snugly into.
  11. verb (transitive) To make into sausage.
  12. verb (transitive) To make sausage-like, especially to give the appearance of barely fitting into the casing or skin.
  13. verb (engineering) To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.

Synonyms

blimp sausage balloon

Etymology

From late Middle English sawsiche, from Anglo-Norman sausiche (compare Norman saûciche), from Late Latin salsīcia (compare Sicilian sausizza, Spanish salchicha, Italian salsiccia), feminine of salsīcius (“seasoned with salt”), derivative of Latin salsus (“salted”), from sal (“salt”). More at salt. Doublet of saucisse. See also Sicilian sausizza. Displaced native Old English mearh.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal.
  2. noun A saucisson. See Saucisson. Wilhelm.

Etymology [F. saucisse, LL. salcitia, salcicia, fr. salsa. See Sauce.]

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