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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

trimming

/ˈtɹɪmɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of trim

Forms trimmings

  1. noun (uncountable) The act or process of someone who trims.
  2. noun (countable) An instance of that act or process. “I gave a good trimming to my elderly neighbour's hedges.”
  3. noun (countable) Material that is removed by someone trimming something, as a piece of steak. “He gave the trimmings to the dog under the kitchen table.”
  4. noun (historical) An ornamental accessory to a dress or other piece of clothing.
  5. noun An accessory or accompaniment. “Christmas dinner with all the trimmings”
  6. noun (colloquial, dated) A reprimand or chastising. “to give a boy a trimming”

Synonyms

trim passementerie clipping

Webster’s 1913

  1. a. from Trim, v. The Whigs are, essentially, an inefficient, trimming, halfway sort of a party. Jeffrey.
  2. noun The act of one who trims.
  3. noun That which serves to trim, make right or fitting, adjust, ornament, or the like; especially, the necessary or the ornamental appendages, as of a garment; hence, sometimes, the concomitants of a dish; a relish; --usually in the pluraltrimmings..

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “trimming” (best matches first).