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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shrub

/ˈʃɹʌb/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms shrubs shrubbing shrubbed

  1. noun A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
  2. verb (obsolete) To lop; to prune.
  3. verb (rare) To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.
  4. noun A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.
  5. verb (rare) To make or drink a shrub (liquor drink).
  6. verb (ambitransitive, Kenya, slang) To mispronounce (a word or words) in another language in a manner that is influenced by one's mother tongue.
  7. noun (Kenya, slang) A word mispronounced by replacing some consonant sounds with others of a similar place of articulation as influenced by one's mother tongue.
  8. proper noun (US politics, derogatory) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).

Synonyms

bush

Etymology

From Middle English schrub, schrob, (also unassibilated as scrub), from Old English *sċrob (in placenames) and sċrybb (“a shrub; shrubbery; underbrush”); akin to Norwegian skrubbe (“the dwarf cornel tree”). Doublet of scrub.

From Arabic شِرَاب (širāb, “a drink, beverage”), شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”), akin to syrup, sherbet, and sorbet.

Of unknown origin. First attested in the 2000s.
Chiefly used in respect to English or Swahili pronounced in a manner characteristic of another Kenyan language.

A play on his surname Bush, a shrub being a smaller bush, thus indicating that he is the junior Bush in relation to his father George H. W. Bush. Popularized by American newspaper columnist Molly Ivins (1944–2007), who co-wrote Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush (2000) with Lou Dubose.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
  2. noun A woody plant of less size than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root.
  3. verb To lop; to prune. [Obs.] Anderson (1573).

Etymology [Ar. shirb, shurb, a drink, beverage, fr. shariba to drink. Cf. Sirup, Sherbet.]

Etymology [OE. schrob, AS. scrob, scrobb; akin to Norw. skrubba the dwarf cornel tree.]

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

Sanskrit

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