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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connote

UK /kəˈnəʊt/ · US /kəˈnoʊt/ verb

Forms connotes connoting connoted

  1. verb (transitive) To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning. “Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance.”
  2. verb (transitive) To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence. “Poverty connotes hunger.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To express without overt reference; to imply.
  4. verb (intransitive) To require as a logical predicate to consequence.

Synonyms

entail imply predicate

Etymology

From Medieval Latin connotō (“signify beyond literal meaning”), from com- (“together”), + notō (“mark”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply.
  2. verb To imply as an attribute.

Etymology [See Connotate, and Note.]

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