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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kern

UK /kɜːn/ · US /kɝn/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of quern

Forms kerns kerning kerned kirn curn kerne Keirn

  1. noun (obsolete or dialect) A corn; grain; kernel.
  2. noun (obsolete or dialect) The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest.
  3. noun (obsolete or dialect) The harvest home.
  4. noun (obsolete or dialect) A doll or figurine raised in celebration of a successful harvest; kern-baby.
  5. noun (hot metal printing, typography) Any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter.
  6. verb (typography, chiefly proportional font printing) To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules.
  7. noun (archaic or historical) A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt.
  8. noun (obsolete or Ireland) A boor; a low person.
  9. noun (obsolete, UK) An idler; a vagabond.
  10. noun A churn.
  11. proper noun A surname.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Macon County, Missouri, United States.
  13. proper noun A river in California, United States.

Synonyms

Jerome Kern Jerome David Kern

Etymology

From Middle English curn, cooren, variant forms of Middle English corn, see English corn and also Dutch kern, Old High German kerno, cherno, Middle High German kerne, kern, German Kern (“core, kernel”), Old Norse kjarni, Icelandic kjarni, Danish kjerne, Swedish kärna (“core, kernel”); see also kernel.

From French carne (“corner; projecting angle; quill of a pen”), from Latin cardinem (“hinge”) or from Etymology 1. The verb is a back-formation from kerned, which is from the noun. Doublet of cardo.

From Middle English kerne, from Middle Irish ceithern. Doublet of quaternion.

The unincorporated community in Missouri is named after Robert Kern. The Kern River is named after Edward Kern.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; --distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt. Macaulay.
  2. noun Any kind of boor or low-lived person. [Obs.] Blount.
  3. noun A part of the face of a type which projects beyond the body, or shank.
  4. verb To form with a kern. See 2d Kern.

Etymology [Ir.ceatharnach.Cf. Cateran.]

Etymology [See Churn.]

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