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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choreography

UK /ˌkɒɹiˈɒɡɹəfi/ · US /ˌkɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfi/ noun

Forms choreographies choregraphy

  1. noun (uncountable) The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet. “She has staged many successful ballets, so her choreography skills must be excellent.”
  2. noun (by extension) The art of creating and arranging sequences of movement for performances of any kind, such as in fight choreography.
  3. noun (by extension, figurative) The art of creating and arranging any activities that involve social coordination or orchestration. “the delicate choreography of a marathon transplant operation involving several surgical suites”
  4. noun (uncountable) The dance steps, sequences or styles peculiar to a work, group, performance or institution. “The show's singing and acting was excellent, but the choreography was dull and poorly-done.”
  5. noun The representation of these movements by a series of symbols. “I've written down the choreography for y'all to take a look at.”
  6. noun The notation used to construct this record. “Take a look at this, it's the choreography for our next show.”
  7. noun (countable, soccer) An organised display by fans in the stadium, involving props such as flags, banners, musical instruments and pyrotechnics.

Synonyms

tifo stage dancing

Etymology

Reshaping of earlier choregraphy, a borrowing from French chorégraphie, from Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance”) + -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā, “written form (of a word, etc.), spelling”). By surface analysis, choreo- + -graphy.
Both choregraphy and choreography replaced earlier chorography in the dance sense (from χορός (khorós, “dance ring, round dance”) + -γραφία (-graphía); compare Greek χορογραφία (chorografía)), which had been used in 1710 as a translation of the same French term.

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