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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capitalisation

/ˌkæpɪtəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ noun

Forms capitalisations capitalization

  1. noun Choice of case (when writing a word); the act or process of writing a word in a particular case, such as ALL CAPS, Title Case, CamelCase, Sentence case, or all lowercase. “English and French have different rules for the capitalisation of the names of the days of the week.”
  2. noun (in particular) The act or process of writing (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters. “The capitalisation of all nouns is a distinctive feature of German.”
  3. noun The act or process of seizing (an opportunity) and profiting or obtaining an advantage (from it).
  4. noun The state of being capitalised.
  5. noun The state of having a particular case, such as ALL CAPS or all lowercase. “His capitalisation was erratic: sometimes he wrote "British", sometimes "british", sometimes "briTish"...”
  6. noun The total value of all outstanding shares for a publicly traded company

Synonyms

cap capitalization

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “capitalisation”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details