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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aberrant

/əˈbɛɹ.ənt/ adjective, noun

Forms aberrants

  1. adjective Differing from the norm.
  2. adjective (sometimes figuratively) Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
  3. adjective (botany, zoology) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
  4. noun A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.
  5. noun (biology) A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.

Synonyms

abnormal exceptional unusual alien anomalous as queer as Dick's hatband bizarre booky curious deviant discrepant eerie eldritch errant extraordinary fey forby freak freakish freaky deviate

Antonyms

normal regular true average medial basic bog-standard common commonplace common-and-garden common-or-garden congruent

Etymology

From Latin aberrāns, present active participle of aberrō (“go astray; err”), from ab (“from”) + errō (“to wander”). See aberr.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective See Aberr.]
  2. adjective Wandering; straying from the right way.

Etymology [L. aberrans, -rantis, p.pr. of aberrare.]

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