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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eureka

UK /jəˈɹiː.kə/ · US /jʊˈɹiː.kə/ interjection, noun, proper noun

Forms eureka!

  1. interjection An exclamation indicating a sudden discovery. “I rolled back the rug and eureka - there it was!”
  2. noun Synonym of constantan (“copper-nickel alloy”).
  3. proper noun A locality in the Byron council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  4. proper noun A rural locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia.
  5. proper noun A small suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
  6. proper noun A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  7. proper noun A small research base in Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.
  8. proper noun A settlement in Waikato district, Waikato region, New Zealand.
  9. proper noun A city, the county seat of Humboldt County, in northern California.
  10. proper noun A ghost town in Nevada County, California.

Synonyms

constantan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative first person singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find”). Archimedes supposedly exclaimed this when he figured out how to determine the density of an object. First use appears c. 1603 in a text by Philemon Holland.

Webster’s 1913

  1. The exclamation attributed to Archimedes, who is said to have cried out "Eureka! eureka!" (I have found it! I have found it!), upon suddenly discovering a method of finding out how much the gold of King Hiero's crown had been alloyed. Hence, an expression of triumph concerning a discovery.

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