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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“favoring” is a form of

favor

UK /ˈfeɪ.və/ · US /ˈfeɪ.vɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms favors favoring favored favour

  1. noun A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone). “He did me a favor when he took the time to drive me home.”
  2. noun Goodwill; benevolent regard. “She enjoyed the queen's favor.”
  3. noun A small gift; a party favor. “wedding favor”
  4. noun Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
  5. noun The object of regard; person or thing favoured.
  6. noun (obsolete) Appearance; look; countenance; face.
  7. noun (law) Partiality; bias
  8. noun (archaic) A letter, a written communication.
  9. verb To look upon fondly; to prefer.
  10. verb To use more often.
  11. verb To encourage, conduce to
  12. verb To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward. “Would you favor us with a poetry reading?”
  13. verb (in dialects, including Southern US and Cajun) To resemble; especially, to look like (another person).
  14. verb To treat or use (something) gently “I always try to favor my bad knee.”
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

service aid help lending a hand token abet assist endorse favoritize favourite sanction favour party favor party favour prefer privilege

Antonyms

discrimination disfavor unfavor harm sabotage discriminate

Etymology

From Middle English favour, favor, faver, from Anglo-Norman favour, from mainland Old French favor, from Latin favor (“good will; kindness; partiality”), from faveō (“to be kind to”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂weh₁yeti (“to be favourable to”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine, glow light”). Respelled in American English to more closely match its Latin etymon. Compare also Danish favør (“favor”), Irish fabhar (“favor”), from the same Romance source.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
  2. noun The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending.
  3. verb To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards.
  4. verb To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.

Etymology [Written also favour.]

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