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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clarification

/ˌklæɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/ noun

Forms clarifications

  1. noun The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from impurities via the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent. “The clarification of wine.”
  2. noun The act of freeing from obscurities; disambiguation. “Your ideas deserve clarification.”
  3. noun An explanatory comment on, or question about, a point of obscurity. “Let me make just one clarification: did he kiss her, or did she kiss him?”
  4. noun (journalism) A small piece of writing supplemental to a previously published text, intended to disambiguate, explain away obscurities, but not contradict or emend the text (as would a correction).
  5. noun (in the phrase for clarification) Clarity, transparency, mutual understanding; to be clear. “So, just for clarification, you're saying your Chihuahua ate your homework?”

Synonyms

elucidation illumination clearing

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French clarification, from Latin clārificātiō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of making clear or transparent, by freeing visible impurities; as, the clarification of wine.
  2. noun The act of freeing from obscurities.

Etymology [Cf. F. clarification, L. clarificatio glorification.]

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