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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bland

/blænd/ adjective, verb, noun, proper noun

Forms blander blandest blands blanding blanded blaind blaund

  1. adjective Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating. “a bland oil”
  2. adjective Lacking in taste or flavor. “The coffee was bland.”
  3. adjective Lacking in vigor.
  4. adjective (figurative) Lacking interest; boring; dull. “bland comment”
  5. adjective (now rare) Mild; soft, gentle, balmy; smooth in manner; suave.
  6. verb (transitive, UK dialectal) To mix; blend; mingle.
  7. verb (transitive, UK dialectal) To connect; associate.
  8. noun (UK dialectal) Mixture; union.
  9. noun A summer beverage prepared from the whey of churned milk, common among the inhabitants of the Shetland Islands.
  10. proper noun A surname.
  11. proper noun A small city in Gasconade County and Osage County, Missouri, United States.
  12. proper noun A census-designated place, the county seat of Bland County, Virginia, United States.
  13. proper noun A local government area (Bland Shire) in the Riverina region, New South Wales, Australia.
  14. proper noun A locality in the Bland council area, central New South Wales, Australia.

Synonyms

anodyne flat tasteless wallow cardboard flaggy flavorless ingustible intastable savorless insipid tame gustless sapidless mawkish smackless unsavory untasteable vapid wallowish flavourless savourless politic smooth suave

Etymology

From Middle English blanden, blonden, from Old English blandan (“to blend, mix, mingle; trouble, disturb, corrupt”), from Proto-Germanic *blandaną (“to mix, blend”). Cognate with Icelandic blanda, Norwegian, Danish blande, Swedish blanda. See also blend.

From Middle English bland, from Old English bland, blond (“blending, mixture, confusion”), from Proto-Germanic *blandą (“a mixing, mixture”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to grow turbid, dim, see badly, be blind”). Cognate with Icelandic blanda (“a mixture of liquids, especially of hot whey and water”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Mild; soft; gentle; smooth and soothing in manner; suave; as, a bland temper; bland persuasion; a bland sycophant. "Exhilarating vapor bland." Milton.
  2. adjective Having soft and soothing qualities; not drastic or irritating; not stimulating; as, a bland oil; a bland diet.

Etymology [L. blandus, of unknown origin.]

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

Sanskrit

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