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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hub

/hʌb/ noun, proper noun

Forms hubs the hub

  1. noun The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
  2. noun A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted. “Hong Kong International Airport is one of the most important air traffic hubs in Asia.”
  3. noun A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.
  4. noun (networking) A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
  5. noun (surveying) A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
  6. noun A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
  7. noun (US) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction. “a hub in the road”
  8. noun (video games) An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.
  9. proper noun (informal) Nickname for Boston: a major city in Massachusetts, United States.
  10. proper noun (Internet slang, euphemistic) Pornhub.

Synonyms

hub world

Etymology

From earlier hubbe, which has the same immediate origin as hob. Hub was originally a dialectal word; its ultimate origin is unknown. Compare German Hubbel (“bump on a surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hubil (“bump, hill”) (which contains a diminutive suffix *-il); compare English hive, or perhaps ultimately from the same root as hip or hop.

From hub.

Clipping of Pornhub, from hub.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. See Illust. of Axle box.
  2. noun The hilt of a weapon. Halliwell.

Etymology [See 1st Hob.]

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