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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copperplate

/ˈkɑpərˌpleɪt/ noun, verb

Forms copperplates copperplating copperplated

  1. noun A copper plate, either etched or engraved, to make a recessed pattern.
  2. noun A print made from such a plate.
  3. noun A style of handwriting based on that used on such prints; English round hand.
  4. verb To engrave on and print from a copperplate.

Synonyms

copperplate engraving

Etymology

For the plate used for engraving: in the 1660s.
As a term for the printed product: from 1817.
Of the especially clear writing used in such prints: from the 1820s.
Use as a verb (the past participle copperplated) is from 1822.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Note: In printing from a copper-or steel plate the lines are filled with ink, the surface of the plate is wiped clean, the paper laid upon it, and the impression taken by pressing it under the roller of a plate press. Copperplate press. See Plate press, under Plate.

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