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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colored

UK /ˈkʌləd/ · US /ˈkʌləɹd/ adjective, noun

Also a form of color

Forms coloreds coloured

  1. adjective Having a color. “Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.”
  2. adjective (in combination) Having a particular color or kind of color. “The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.”
  3. adjective Having prominent colors; colorful. “The singer wore a colored shirt.”
  4. adjective Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
  5. adjective (US, now dated and usually offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
  6. adjective (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, sometimes capitalized) Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.) “Most of the colored community speaks Afrikaans, whereas languages like Xhosa or Venda are typically spoken by blacks and English is spoken mostly by whites.”
  7. adjective (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense). “a colored drinking fountain”
  8. noun (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
  9. noun (South Africa) A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.
  10. noun (US, dated and offensive) A colored (nonwhite) person.

Synonyms

Eurafrican hued colored person coloured colorful dark dark-skinned non-white biased one-sided slanted bleached dyed

Antonyms

achromatic colorless uncolored

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
  2. adjective Specious; plausible; aborned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis.

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