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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vocabulary

UK /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ · US /voʊˈkæb.jəˌlɛɹ.i/ noun

Forms vocabularies

  1. noun A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
  2. noun The collection of words a person knows and uses. “My Russian vocabulary is very limited.”
  3. noun The stock of words used in a particular field. “The vocabulary of social sciences is often incomprehensible to ordinary people.”
  4. noun The words of a language collectively; lexis. “The vocabulary of any language is influenced by contacts with other cultures.”
  5. noun (by extension) A range of artistic or stylistic forms or techniques.

Synonyms

word-stock word-hoard dictionary lexicon mental lexicon

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vocābulārium. Doublet of vocabularium.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book.
  2. noun A sum or stock of words employed.

Etymology [LL. vocabularium, vocabularius: cf. F. vocabulaire. See Vocable.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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