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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caesura

UK /sɪˈzjʊəɹə/ · US /səˈʒʊɹə/ noun

Forms caesuras caesurae cesura cæsura

  1. noun (rhetoric) A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
  2. noun (Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
  3. noun (typography) The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
  4. noun (rare) A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.

Synonyms

virgule

Etymology

Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”), from caesus, perfect passive participle of caedō (“to cut down, hew”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the cæsural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.

Etymology [L. caesura a cutting off, a division, stop, fr. caedere, caesum, to cut off. See Concise.]

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