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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fallback

/ˈfɔːl.bæk/ noun, adjective

Forms fallbacks fall-back

  1. noun An act of falling back. “A failure of one of the rocket's first-stage engines just after liftoff would result in a destructive pad fallback.”
  2. noun A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse. “As a fallback, I suppose we can use typewriters if the word processing system fails.”
  3. noun (construction) A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating, in a relatively closed container.
  4. noun Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.
  5. adjective That can be resorted to as a fallback. “a fallback plan”

Synonyms

ebbing recession retreat back-up backup plan B recourse. Thesaurus:option alternate alternative secondary disengagement pullout

Etymology

From the verb fall back.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “fallback”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details