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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abecedarian

UK /eɪ.biː.siːˈdɛː.ɹɪ.ən/ · US /ˌeɪ.biˌsiˈdɛ.ɹi.ən/ noun, adjective

Forms abecedarians abecedary

  1. noun Someone who is learning the alphabet.
  2. noun An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning.
  3. noun (archaic) Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning.
  4. noun (rhetoric) A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.
  5. adjective (now rare) Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary.
  6. adjective Pertaining to the alphabet, or several alphabets.
  7. adjective Arranged in an alphabetical manner.
  8. adjective Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.
  9. noun (historical) A member of a 16th-century Anabaptist sect, follower of the Zwickau prophets (and specially of Thomas Storch), who believed that any kind of knowledge (even basic reading and writing) would keep one from obtaining salvation.

Etymology

From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius). Equivalent to abecedary + -an. Compare abecedary.

From Latin abecedārius + -an; see abecedarian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
  2. noun One engaged in teaching the alphabet. Wood.
  3. adjective Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary. Abecedarian psalms, hymns, etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet.

Etymology [L. abecedarius. A word from the first four letters of the alphabet.]

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