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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el

/ˈɛl/ noun, numeral, article, proper noun

Also a form of ell

Forms els L ell

  1. noun The name of the Latin script letter L/l.
  2. noun (US) An elevated railway, especially for specific systems such as the metro in Chicago (informal)
  3. numeral The cardinal number occurring after dek and before do in a duodecimal system. Written ↋, decimal value 11.
  4. article (informal, humorous, chiefly Internet slang) The (sometimes where "the" would not occur in normal English).
  5. noun The name of the Cyrillic script letter Л / л
  6. proper noun Any of several major ancient Near East deities, including the supreme god of the Canaanite religion, but especially the supreme Hebrew God.
  7. proper noun (transport, slang) Any one of several specific elevated railways. “The Washington Street El was torn down in 1987.”
  8. proper noun A unisex given name, often used as a nickname.

Synonyms

elevation altitude ALT elevated railway elevated railroad elevated overhead railway

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English el, from Latin el (the name of the letter L).

Shortening of eleven.

Borrowed from Spanish el.

From Biblical Hebrew אֵל (ʾēl).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “el”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details