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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folio

UK /ˈfəʊlɪəʊ/ · US /ˈfoʊliˌoʊ/ noun, verb

Forms folios folioing folioed

  1. noun A leaf of a book or manuscript.
  2. noun A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book.
  3. noun A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages.
  4. noun A sheet of paper folded in half.
  5. noun A book made of sheets of paper each folded in half (two leaves or four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind, exceeding 30 centimetres in height. “A rare copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio.”
  6. noun A wrapper for loose papers.
  7. noun (accounting) A page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
  8. noun (computing) A protective case with a flap that folds to cover the screen of a mobile device.
  9. verb (transitive) To put a serial number on (a folio or page, or on all the folios or pages of a book); to foliate, to page.

Synonyms

F fo 2º pagination page number paging leaf

Etymology

From Middle English folio (“leaf of a book”), borrowed from Medieval Latin foliō, Late Latin foliō, Latin foliō, the ablative singular form of Late Latin folium (“leaf or sheet of paper”), Latin folium (“leaf of a plant”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“bloom, flower”). Doublet of foil and folium, and distantly related to phyllo and phyllon.
Senses 1, 2, 3.1, 5, and 6 relating to a leaf or page are derived from Medieval Latin foliō in references; sense 5 (“page in an account book”) may be derived from Italian foglio (“rectangular sheet of paper”), from Latin folium. Senses 3.2 and 3.3 relating to a paper size are from Italian in foglio or its etymon Latin in foliō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A leaf of a book or manuscript.
  2. noun A sheet of paper once folded.
  3. verb To put a serial number on each folio or page of (a book); to page.
  4. adjective Formed of sheets each folded once, making two leaves, or four pages; as, a folio volume. See Folio, n., 3.

Etymology [Ablative of L. folium leaf. See 4th Foil.]

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