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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cursor

UK /ˈkɜːsə/ · US /ˈkɜɹsəɹ/ noun, verb

Forms cursors cursoring cursored cursour

  1. noun A part of any of several scientific or measuring instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position.
  2. noun (graphical user interface) A moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device.
  3. noun (computing) An indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
  4. noun (databases) A reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it.
  5. noun (programming) A design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly.
  6. verb (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.

Synonyms

pointer caret iterator pattern

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cursor (“runner”), from currō (“run”) + -or (agentive suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.

Etymology [L., a runner. See Cursitor.]

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