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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fossil

UK /ˈfɒsl̩/ · US /ˈfɑsl̩/ noun, proper noun

Forms fossils

  1. noun The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
  2. noun (paleontology) Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
  3. noun (linguistics) A fossil word.
  4. noun (figuratively) Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.
  5. noun (figuratively, derogatory) An extremely old or outdated person.
  6. noun (Internet, colloquial) A piece of content, which, despite its age, is being repromoted to a large volume of users by the algorithm.
  7. proper noun A small city, the county seat of Wheeler County, Oregon, United States.

Synonyms

dodo fogy fogey

Etymology

From French fossile, from Latin fossilis (“something which has been dug up”), from fodio (“to dig up”).

From the standard noun fossil, because of fossil finds in the area.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Dug out of the eart; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
  2. adjective Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth.
  3. noun A substance dug from the earth. [Obs.]
  4. noun The remains of an animal or plant found in stratified rocks.

Etymology [L. fossilis, fr. fodere to dig: cf. F. fossile. See Fosse.]

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

Sanskrit

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