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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epilogue

UK /ˈɛp.ɪ.lɒɡ/ · US /ˈɛpɪlɔɡ/ noun, verb

Forms epilogues epiloguing epilogued epilog

  1. noun A short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play “In the play’s epilogue, the actor addressed the audience directly.”
  2. noun The performer who gives this speech
  3. noun A brief oration or script at the end of a literary piece; an afterword “The novel ended with a short epilogue.”
  4. noun (computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to return from a routine.
  5. verb (transitive) To conclude with an epilogue.

Synonyms

afterword endspeech epilog

Antonyms

prologue

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French epilogue, from Latin epilogus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίλογος (epílogos, “a conclusion, peroration of a speech, epilogue of a play”), from ἐπιλέγω (epilégō, “to say in addition”). Eclipsed Middle English lenvoie (“epilogue”) borrowed ultimately from Old French. Equivalent to epi- + -logue.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.
  2. noun The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.

Etymology [F. épilogue, L. epilogus, fr. Gr. Legend.]

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