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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ex

/ɛks/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms exes exing exed

  1. noun The name of the Latin script letter X/x.
  2. verb To delete; to cross out.
  3. verb (slang) To extinguish the life of.
  4. noun (colloquial) A former partner or spouse; an ex-girlfriend, ex-boyfriend, ex-wife, or ex-husband. “My friend has an ex who now lives abroad.”
  5. adjective Ex-, former, previously but no longer.
  6. adjective (rail transport, of a train) the place the train originated from or called at prior to the present location.
  7. adjective (Singapore, colloquial) expensive, dear “It's too ex.”

Synonyms

annihilate bag baptize bereave of life blight bring down bump off bury cack compromised to a permanent end croak crush dash deactivate dead demolish destroy dispatch dispose of do ex-husband ex-wife X antique demode old-fashioned old-hat outmoded passe passee

Etymology

From Latin ex.

From the fact that crossing something out often results in the shape of the letter X.

Standalone use of prefix ex-.

From Latin ex (“out of, from”); originated as a telegraphic abbreviation.

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