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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caricature

UK /ˈkæɹɪkəˌtʃʊə/ · US /ˈkɛɹɪkət͡ʃʊɚ/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms caricatures caricaturing caricatured caricatura

  1. noun A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
  2. noun A grotesque misrepresentation.
  3. noun (computing) In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.
  4. adjective Having the characteristics of a caricature, grotesque.
  5. verb To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.

Synonyms

imitation impersonation ape

Etymology

Borrowed from French caricature, from Italian caricatùra, ultimately from Latin carrus, and so not related to character, which is instead ultimately from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “type, nature, character”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.
  2. noun A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody. [Formerly written caricatura.]
  3. verb To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque.

Etymology [It. caricatura, fr. caricare to charge, overload, exaggerate. See Charge, v. t.]

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