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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caret

/ˈkæɹ.ɪt/ noun

Forms carets

  1. noun A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point.
  2. noun An exponentiation symbol or operator ⟨＾⟩.
  3. noun (user interface) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and usually called a cursor, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
  4. noun (nonstandard) A circumflex ⟨ ˆ ⟩.
  5. noun (nonstandard) A háček ⟨ ˇ ⟩.
  6. noun (archaic) A kind of turtle, the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata).

Etymology

From the Latin caret (“it lacks”), the third-person singular present active indicative form of careō (“to lack”).

Borrowed from French caret.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret.
  2. noun The hawkbill turtle. See Hawkbill.

Etymology [L. caret there is wanting, fr. carere to want.]

Etymology [F., a species of tortoise.]

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