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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barber

UK /ˈbɑːbə/ · US /ˈbɑɹ.bɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms barbers barbering barbered

  1. noun A person whose profession is cutting the hair and beards of usually male customers.
  2. noun A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
  3. noun (Canada) A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, especially one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; so named from the cutting ice spicules.
  4. verb (transitive) To cut the hair or beard of (a person).
  5. verb (intransitive) (US, slang) To chatter, talk.
  6. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation for a barber.
  7. proper noun A neighbourhood of Chico, Butte County, California.
  8. proper noun A township in Faribault County, Minnesota.
  9. proper noun Former name of Maurer, a neighborhood of Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cherokee County, Oklahoma.
  11. proper noun A town in the north of Curaçao.

Synonyms

haircutter hairdresser hairstylist tonsor cutbeard Samuel Barber

Etymology

From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons. Barber's itch. See under Itch.
  2. verb To shave and dress the beard or hair of. Shak.

Etymology [OE. barbour, OF. barbeor, F. barbier, as if fr. an assumed L. barbator, fr. barba beard. See 1st Barb.]

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

Sanskrit

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