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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font

UK /fɒnt/ · US /fɑnt/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms fonts fonting fonted fount

  1. noun (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism. “She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.”
  2. noun A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
  3. noun In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
  4. noun In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
  5. noun In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
  6. noun (originally computing, typography, informal) A typeface.
  7. noun (computing, typography, metonymic) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer. “They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines.”
  8. noun (informal) The design of any text. “I like the font of this logo.”
  9. verb (transitive, television, informal) To overlay (text) on the picture.
  10. noun (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
  11. proper noun (informal) # Clipping of Fontainebleau: a town near Paris, in Seine-et-Marne department, Île-de-France, France.
  12. proper noun A surname

Synonyms

stoup lettering fount typeface face case baptismal font baptistry baptistery

Etymology

From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”).

From Middle French fonte (“act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”) (modern French fonte), either:
* from fondre (“to melt, melt down; to smelt”), from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere, the present active infinitive of fundō (“to pour out; to make by smelting, found”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”); or
* from Late Latin *fundita, a noun use of funditus, a perfect passive participle form of Latin fundō (see above; the classical Latin form is fūsus).

Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).

Clipping of Fontainebleau.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.
  2. noun A fountain; a spring; a source.
  3. noun A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.

Etymology [F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See Found to cast, and cf. Fount a font.]

Etymology [AS. font, fant, fr. L. fons, fontis, spring, fountain; cf. OF. font, funt, F. fonts, fonts baptismaux, pl. See Fount.]

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