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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Rhodes

UK /ɹəʊdz/ · US /ɹoʊdz/ proper noun

Forms Rhodeses Rhoades Rhoads Rodes Roades Royds Rhode

  1. proper noun An island of the Dodecanese, Greece in the Aegean Sea.
  2. proper noun A city on the island of Rhodes, Greece, and the capital of the Dodecanese.
  3. proper noun A topographic surname for a person who lived near woodland clearings, or a habitational one for someone from a place so named.
  4. proper noun (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
  5. proper noun A village in northern Eastern Cape province, South Africa; named for Cecil Rhodes.
  6. proper noun An unincorporated community in Clinton Township, Vermillion County, Indiana.
  7. proper noun A minor city in Marshall County, Iowa; named for Conway B. Rhodes.
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in Bentley Township, Gladwin County, Michigan; named for Murry Bentley Rhodes.
  9. proper noun A census-designated place in Flathead County, Montana.
  10. proper noun A village near Middleton, Rochdale borough, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8505).

Synonyms

Cecil Rhodes Cecil J. Rhodes Cecil John Rhodes Rodhos

Etymology

From French Rhodes, from Latin Rhodus, from Ancient Greek Ῥόδος (Rhódos), of uncertain etymology. Possibilities include a pre-Greek name (cf. Phoenician 𐤄𐤓𐤏𐤃 (hrʿd), "snake"), ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), and ῥοιά (rhoiá, “pomegranate”).

From rodes, the plural form of Middle English rode, from Old English rod, rodu.
The Rh- form—a 16th century spelling modification—was created by analogy with the unrelated Rhodes, Greece.

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