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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inset

/ˈɪnsɛt/ verb, noun, adjective

Forms insets insetting insetted further inset farther inset furthest inset farthest inset

  1. verb (transitive) To set in; infix or implant.
  2. verb (transitive) To insert something.
  3. verb (transitive) To add an inset to something.
  4. noun A smaller thing set into a larger thing, such as a small picture inside a larger one. “a map of the whole state with city maps as insets”
  5. noun Anything inserted.
  6. noun A small piece of material used to strengthen a garment.
  7. noun (telecommunications) A modular microphone that can be removed from a telephone handset without disassembly.
  8. noun (mining) An opening partway down a shaft, giving access to the intermediate levels.
  9. adjective Having been inset. “the inset diamonds”

Synonyms

insert gusset

Etymology

From Middle English insetten, from Old English insettan (“to set in, institute, appoint”), equivalent to in- + set. Cognate with Dutch inzetten (“to insert, set in”), Low German insetten (“to set in”), German einsetzen (“to insert, employ”), Danish indsætte (“to insert”), Swedish insätta (“to inset, induct, institute”), Icelandic innsetja (“to install”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To infix. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. noun That which is inserted or set in; an insertion.
  3. noun One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; --also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted.

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