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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disparate

/ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹət/ adjective, noun

Forms disparates

  1. adjective Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous. “The board of the company was decidedly disparate, with no two members from the same social or economic background.”
  2. adjective Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs.
  3. adjective Utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common ground.
  4. noun (chiefly in the plural) Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.

Synonyms

incongruous mismatched uncoordinated different dissimilar unalike incommensurable

Etymology

First attested in 1586; either borrowed from Middle French desparat or directly from Latin disparātus, perfect passive participle of disparō (“to divide”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from dis- (“apart”) + parō (“to arrange”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”) and the root *per- (“carry forth”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Unequal; dissimilar; separate.
  2. adjective Pertaining to two coördinate species or divisions.

Etymology [L. disparatus, p. p. of disparare to part, separate; dis- + parare to make ready, prepare.]

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