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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incommensurable

UK /ɪnkəˈmɛnʃ(ə)ɹəbəl/ · US /ɪn.kəˈmɛnt͡ʃ.ɹə.bəl/ adjective, noun

Forms incommensurables

  1. adjective (mathematics, of two real numbers) having a ratio that is not expressible as a fraction of two integers. “The side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable.”
  2. adjective (mathematics, of two integers) having no common integer divisor except 1.
  3. adjective Not able to be measured by the same standards as another term in the context.
  4. noun An incommensurable value or quantity; an irrational number.

Etymology

From Middle French incommensurable, from Medieval Latin incommensurabilis.
Its full etymology is equivalent to that of in- + commensurable.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable.
  2. noun One of two or more quantities which have no common measure.

Etymology [Pref. in- not + commensurable: cf. F. incommensurable.]

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