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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except

/ɪkˈsɛpt/ verb, preposition, conjunction

Forms excepts excepting excepted excepte

  1. verb (transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception. “I find most people annoying — present company excepted, of course!”
  2. verb (intransitive) To take exception, to object (to or against). “to except to a witness or his testimony”
  3. preposition Used to introduce an exception or qualification to something previously stated. “There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.”
  4. conjunction Used to introduce a clause, phrase, verb infinitive, adverb or other non-noun complement forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated. “You look a bit like my sister, except (that) she has longer hair.”
  5. conjunction (informal) Loosely, used to introduce a contrastive statement explaining why something wasn't successful, didn't happen, etc. “They fired tear gas at us, except the wind was blowing the wrong way.”
  6. conjunction (archaic) Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.

Synonyms

apart from except for outtake with the exception of apart aside aside from bar barring besides but but for excepting excluding forby modulo not counting other than save save for demur exclude leave out leave off omit take out

Antonyms

in addition to for example even

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French excepter, from Latin exceptus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
  2. verb To object to; to protest against. [Obs.] Shak.
  3. verb To take exception; to object; --usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.
  4. preposition With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.

Etymology [L. exceptus, p. p. of excipere to take or draw out, to except; ex out + capere to take: cf. F. excepter. See Capable.]

Etymology [Originally past participle, or verb in the imperative mode.]

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

Sanskrit

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