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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oh

UK /əʊ/ · US /oʊ/ interjection, noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of otterhound

Forms ohs ohing ohed o

  1. interjection Expression of surprise. “Oh! I didn't see you there.”
  2. interjection Expression of wonder, amazement, or awe. “Oh, wow! That's amazing.”
  3. interjection Expression of understanding, affirmation, recognition, or realization. “Oh, so that's how it works.”
  4. interjection A word to precede an annoyed remark. “Oh, leave me alone.”
  5. interjection A word to precede an added or offhand comment or afterthought. “Oh, and don't forget your coat.”
  6. interjection An invocation or address (similar to the vocative in languages with noun declension), often with a term of endearment. “Oh, gosh.”
  7. interjection (often poetic) Exclamation for drama or emphasis. “Oh, when will it end?”
  8. interjection Expression of pain. See ouch. “Oh! That hurt.”
  9. noun An utterance of oh; a spoken expression of surprise, acknowledgement, etc.
  10. verb (intransitive) To utter the interjection oh; to express surprise, etc.
  11. noun The name of the Latin script letter O/o.
  12. noun The digit 0 (especially in representations of speech)
  13. proper noun A surname from Korean derived from a common Korean surname.
  14. proper noun A surname from Chinese.

Synonyms

Ohio Buckeye State

Etymology

From Middle English o, oo, from Old English ō, from Latin ō.

From o (“zero”), extended use of letter O name based on similar shape of the number 0.

From Korean 오(吳) (O).

From possibly Hokkien 胡 (Ô͘).

Webster’s 1913

  1. interjection An exclamation expressing various emotions, according to the tone and manner, especially surprise, pain, sorrow, anxiety, or a wish. See the Note under O.

Etymology [See O, interj.]

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