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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booth

UK /buːð/ · US /buθ/ noun, proper noun

Forms booths beeth

  1. noun A small stall for the display and sale of goods.
  2. noun (dated) A temporary shelter, often in the form of a tent, shed, or canopied structure.
  3. noun A boxlike room or enclosure just big enough to accommodate one standing person, such as a phone booth or polling booth.
  4. noun An enclosed seating area consisting of a table next to a wall set between two high-backed benches, as in a diner or café.
  5. noun An enclosure for keeping animals.
  6. noun (hip-hop, slang, with “the”) A recording studio.
  7. proper noun A surname.
  8. proper noun Synonym of Boothferry, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
  9. proper noun A hamlet north of Luddenden, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0427).
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Autauga County, Alabama, United States.
  11. proper noun An extinct town in Pike County, Missouri, United States.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States.

Synonyms

Boothferry East Riding of Yorkshire England cubicle stall kiosk John Wilkes Booth

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English bothe, from Old East Norse *bóð, from Proto-Germanic *bōþō, *būþiz, *buþǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Compare Middle Low German bôde, Middle Dutch boede, German Bude.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation. Camden.
  2. noun A covered stall or temporary structure in a fair or market, or at a polling place.

Etymology [OE. bothe; cf. Icel. b, Dan. & Sw. bod, MHG. buode, G. bude, baude; from the same root as AS. b to dwell, E. boor, bower, be; cf. Bohem. bauda, Pol. buda, Russ. budka, Lith. buda, W. bwth, pl. bythod, Gael. buth, Ir. both.]

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