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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album

/ˈælbəm/ noun

Forms albums alba

  1. noun (historical) In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
  2. noun A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs. “In his free time, he used to open his album and add new pictures to it.”
  3. noun A collection, especially of literary items.
  4. noun A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks.
  5. noun A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record.
  6. noun A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group. “His albums are very popular on Spotify.”

Synonyms

scrapbook disk disc LP long-playing record album

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.
  2. noun A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.

Etymology [L., neut. of albus white: cf. F. album. Cf. Alb.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “album” (best matches first).

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