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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

illiteracy

/ɪˈlɪtəɹəsi/ noun

Forms illiteracies

  1. noun (uncountable) The inability to read and write. “Illiteracy is widespread in certain areas of the country.”
  2. noun (uncountable) The portion of a population unable to read and write, generally given as a percentage.
  3. noun (countable) A word, phrase, or grammatical turn thought to be characteristic of an illiterate person.
  4. noun (uncountable, by extension) Unlearnedness; the state of being ignorant or unlettered.

Synonyms

analphabetism

Antonyms

literacy

Etymology

From il- + literacy.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census.
  2. noun An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder.

Etymology [From Illiterate.]

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