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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horror

UK /ˈhɒɹə/ · US /ˈhoɹɚ/ noun

Forms horrors horrour

  1. noun (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
  2. noun (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror. “I saw many horrors during the war.”
  3. noun (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
  4. noun (uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
  5. noun (countable) An individual work in this genre.
  6. noun (countable, colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror. “The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!”
  7. noun (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
  8. noun (in the plural, informal) Delirium tremens.

Synonyms

nightmare repugnance repulsion revulsion

Etymology

From Middle English horer, horrour, from Old French horror, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”). Displaced native Old English ōga.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
  2. noun A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.

Etymology [Formerly written horrour.]

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

Sanskrit

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