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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cutoff

UK /kəˈtɒf/ · US /kəˈtɔf/ noun, adjective

Forms cutoffs cut off cut-off

  1. noun The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
  2. noun (medicine) A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization.
  3. noun A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
  4. noun A device that stops the flow of a current.
  5. noun A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off).
  6. noun A cessation in a flow or activity.
  7. noun (poker) The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop.
  8. noun (fashion, chiefly in the plural) Shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers.
  9. adjective Constituting a limit or ending.
  10. adjective (psychology, medicine) Designating a score or value demarcating the presence (or absence) of a disease, condition, or similar.

Synonyms

shortcut crosscut

Etymology

Deverbal from cut off.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “cutoff”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details