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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dorsum

UK /ˈdɔː.səm/ · US /ˈdɔɹ.səm/ noun

Forms dorsa

  1. noun The back of the tongue, used for articulating dorsal consonants.
  2. noun The top of the foot or the back of the hand.
  3. noun (geology) A ridge on a hill, or on the surface of a planet or moon.
  4. noun (astronomy) Theta Capricorni, a star on the back of the Goat.

Synonyms

back

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dorsum (“the back”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The ridge of a hill.
  2. noun The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue.

Etymology [L.]

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