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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censure

UK /ˈsɛn.ʃə/ · US /ˈsɛn.ʃɚ/ noun, verb

Forms censures censuring censured

  1. noun The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
  2. noun Official reprimand.
  3. noun A judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
  4. noun (obsolete) A judgment (either favorable or unfavorable); an opinion.
  5. verb (transitive) To criticize harshly.
  6. verb (transitive) To formally rebuke.
  7. verb (obsolete, transitive) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.

Synonyms

admonishment dispraise disapprobation attainder attainture attaintment blame condemnation condemning damnation disapproval improbation reprehension brickbatting castigation onus chastisement criticism critique discommendation animadversion excommunication exclusion reprimand criminate

Etymology

From 1350–1400 Middle English censure, from Old French, from Latin censūra (“censor's office or assessment”), from censēre (“to consider, to assess, to value, to judge, to tax, etc.”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. [Obs.]
  2. noun The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame.
  3. verb To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
  4. verb To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of. I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty. Shak.

Etymology [L. censura fr. censere: cf. F. censure. Cf. Censor.]

Etymology [Cf. F. ensurer.]

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

Sanskrit

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