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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strange

/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ adjective, verb, noun, proper noun

Forms stranger strangest stranges stranging stranged

  1. adjective Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation. “He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.”
  2. adjective Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience. “I moved to a strange town when I was ten.”
  3. adjective (slang, of sex, genitals, etc) Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
  4. adjective (particle physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
  5. adjective (mathematics) Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
  6. adjective (obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.
  7. adjective (obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.
  8. adjective (obsolete) Backward; slow.
  9. verb (obsolete, transitive) To alienate; to estrange.
  10. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To be estranged or alienated.
  11. verb (obsolete, intransitive) To wonder; to be astonished at (something).
  12. noun (slang, uncountable) Sex outside of one's current relationship.
  13. noun (particle physics, countable) A strange quark.
  14. proper noun A surname.
  15. proper noun A community in King township, Ontario, Canada, named after Frederick William Strange.

Synonyms

new unfamiliar unknown ignote knownless obscure unascertained unapprehended undiscovered unexplained uninvestigated unrecognized unrevealed alien outlandish acquired additional adventitious ascititious extraneous unusual foreign

Antonyms

everyday normal regular standard usual familiar known common inevitable intermediate moderate

Etymology

From Middle English straunge, strange, stronge, from Old French estrange, from Latin extrāneus (“that which is on the outside”). Doublet of extraneous and estrange. Cognate with French étrange (“strange, foreign”) and Spanish extraño (“strange, foreign”). Largely displaced native fremd, selcouth, and uncouth, from Old English fremede, seldcūþ, and uncūþ.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands." Chaucer.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.
  3. adverb Strangely. [Obs.]
  4. verb To alienate; to estrange. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. estrange, F. étrange, fr. L. extraneus that is without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See Extra, and cf. Estrange, Extraneous.]

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

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