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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exposé

UK /ɪkˈspəʊz/ · US /ɪkˈspoʊz/ noun, verb

Forms exposés exposing exposed exposest exposedst exposeth

  1. noun The act of exposing somebody or something; a shameful showing up.
  2. noun A publication of investigative journalism that reveals hidden and often scandalous truths.
  3. noun A formal recital or exposition.
  4. verb To reveal; to uncover; to make visible; to bring to light.
  5. verb (photography) To subject photographic film to light, thereby recording an image.
  6. verb To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance, such as radiation, a chemical, or any other stress. “Residents were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.”
  7. verb (computing) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs. “to expose an API”
  8. verb To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.

Synonyms

bare bewray betray display find out lay bare luster nake open reveal show uncloak uncover unfold unveil unmasking unwrap disclose let on bring out discover divulge break give away let out exhibit queer scupper endanger peril

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French exposé.

From Middle English exposen, from Old French exposer (“to lay open, set forth”), from Latin expōnō (“set forth”), with contamination from poser (“to lay, place”). Doublet of expone and expound (via Old French espondre (“to set forth, explain”)), from the same Latin term.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.
  2. verb To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat.
  3. noun A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed.

Etymology [F. exposer; pref. ex- (L. ex out)+poser to place. See Pose, v. t.]

Etymology [F., prop.p.p. of exposer. See Expose, v. t.]

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