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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foliation

/fəʊlɪˈeɪʃn/ noun

Forms foliations

  1. noun (botany) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
  2. noun (publishing) The process of forming into pages; pagination.
  3. noun (codicology, publishing) The numbering of the folios of a manuscript or a book.
  4. noun (botany) The manner in which the young leaves are disposed within the bud.
  5. noun The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.
  6. noun The act of coating with an amalgam of tin foil and quicksilver, as in making looking-glasses.
  7. noun The enrichment of an opening by means of foils, arranged in trefoils, quatrefoils, etc.; also, one of the ornaments.
  8. noun (geology) The property, possessed by some crystalline rocks, of being divided into plates or layers, due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.

Synonyms

vernation pagination leafing foliage

Etymology

From French foliation, from Latin folium (“leaf”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
  2. noun The manner in which the young leaves are dispo The . . . foliation must be in relation to the stem. De Quincey.

Etymology [Cf. F. foliation.]

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