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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nib

/nɪb/ noun, verb

Also a form of neb

Forms nibs nibbing nibbed knib

  1. noun The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
  2. noun (now dialectal) A bird's beak.
  3. noun Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
  4. noun A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
  5. noun A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
  6. noun One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
  7. noun The shaft of a wagon.
  8. verb (transitive) To fit (a pen) with a nib.

Synonyms

bill pecker thole SIB pen nib beak neb

Etymology

From a variant of neb, perhaps due to association with nibble.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong. "The little nib or fructifying principle." Sir T. Browne.
  2. noun The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
  3. verb To furnish with a nib; to point; to mend the point of; as, to nib a pen.

Etymology [A variabt of neb.]

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