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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detritus

/dɪˈtɹaɪ.təs/ noun

Forms detrita

  1. noun (countable, chiefly geology) Pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
  2. noun (biology, ecology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
  3. noun (by extension) Any debris or fragments of disintegrated material.
  4. noun Rock consisting of accumulated debris from decayed rocks, like sand, that often is joined by cement.

Synonyms

debris dust junk rubble

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dētrītus (“(that which is) rubbed away”), from dēterō (“rub away”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.
  2. noun Hence: Any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration.

Etymology [F. détritus, fr. L. detritus, p. p. of deterere. See Detriment.]

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