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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unusual

/ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/ adjective, noun

Forms unusuals unusuall

  1. adjective Not usual, out of the ordinary. “Every once in a while, though, Idol comes across an unusual talent who just blows everyone away.”
  2. noun Something that is unusual; an anomaly.

Synonyms

uncommon rare extraordinary remarkable aberrant abnormal alien anomalous as queer as Dick's hatband bizarre booky curious deviant discrepant eerie eldritch errant exceptional fey forby strange

Antonyms

normal usual common ordinary

Etymology

From un- + usual.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition.

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

Sanskrit

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

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