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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acoustic

UK /əˈkuː.stɪk/ · US /əˈku.stɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms acoustics acoustical acoustick

  1. adjective (architecture, of building materials) Used for soundproofing or modifying sound.
  2. adjective Of a device or system, using sound energy in its operation.
  3. adjective (weaponry) Of an explosive mine or other weapon, able to be set off by sound waves.
  4. adjective (music) Naturally producing or produced by an instrument without electrical amplification or the need thereof. “acoustic guitar, acoustic piano”
  5. adjective (transferred sense, humorous or proscribed) Nonelectric; mechanical or otherwise basic. “acoustic bike”
  6. noun (usually in the plural) The properties or qualities of a room or building that determine how sound is transmitted in it.
  7. noun (medicine) A medicine or other agent to assist hearing.

Synonyms

auditory analog artistic acoustical

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin acousticus, acūsticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκουστῐκός (akoustĭkós, “of or for hearing”), from ἀκούω (akoúō, “to hear”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, adjectival suffix).

Due to the shared metrical structure of autistic and acoustic. Popularized on TikTok in late October 2023.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory. Acoustic duct, the auditory duct, or external passage of the ear. -- Acoustic telegraph, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone.
  2. noun A medicine or agent to assist hearing.

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