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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thrift

/ˈθɹɪft/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms thrifts thrifting thrifted

  1. noun (uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money). “His thrift can be seen in how little the trashman takes from his house.”
  2. noun (countable, US) A savings bank. “Usually, home mortgages are obtained from thrifts.”
  3. noun (countable) Any of various plants of the genus Armeria, particularly Armeria maritima.
  4. noun (obsolete) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity; profit.
  5. noun (obsolete) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
  6. verb (ambitransitive) To shop or browse at a thrift shop; to buy (something) at a thrift shop. “They like to go thrifting on weekends.”
  7. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

frugality parsimony parsimoniousness penny-pinching

Antonyms

spendthrift

Etymology

From Middle English thrift, thryfte, þrift, from Old Norse þrift (“thriving condition, prosperity”). Equivalent to thrive + -t.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.
  2. noun Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity. "Your thrift is gone full clean." Chaucer.

Etymology [Icel. . See Thrive.]

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