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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corselet

/ˈkɔːslət/ noun

Forms corselets corcelet corselette corslet

  1. noun Armor for the body, for example a breastplate and backpiece taken together.
  2. noun An entire suit of armor, made up chiefly of the breastplate and backpiece worn with a headpiece and with a gorget, pauldrons, vambraces, gauntlets, and tassets attached.
  3. noun A tight-fitting item of clothing which covers the body and not the limbs.
  4. noun A type of women's underwear, combining a bra and a girdle in one garment; a corselette.
  5. noun (zoology) The thorax of an insect.

Synonyms

corslet

Etymology

From French corselet, from cors, an archaic spelling of corps (“body”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; --also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.
  2. noun The thorax of an insect.

Etymology [F., dim. of OF. cors. F. corps, body. See Corse.]

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