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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intercalary

/ˌɪnt.ɚˈkæl.ɚ.i/ adjective, noun

Forms intercalaries

  1. adjective Describing a time period inserted between others; leap, (as in leap day, leap month, or leap year)
  2. adjective (sciences, by extension) Inserted between other things
  3. adjective (botany) of a meristem: situated between zones of permanent tissue, thus a shoot growing at the base of a leaf, in comparison with apical growth at the tip of a root or plant.
  4. adjective (entomology) of a wing vein: between the major veins common to insect wings.
  5. noun Such a time period

Etymology

From Latin intercalārius, from intercalāris, from intercalō, from inter (“among”) + calō (“call out, proclaim”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; --now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n.
  2. adjective Introduced or inserted among others; additional; supernumerary.

Etymology [L. intercalaris, intercalarius: cf. F. intercalaire. See Intercalate.]

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