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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juxtaposition

/ˌd͡ʒʌk.stə.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/ noun, verb

Forms juxtapositions juxtapositioning juxtapositioned juxta-position

  1. noun The nearness of objects with little or no delimiter.
  2. noun (grammar) An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
  3. noun (mathematics) An absence of operators in an expression. “Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. a#92;timesb collapses to ab.”
  4. noun The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together. “There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.”
  5. noun (art) Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect. “The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.”
  6. noun (rhetoric) The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.
  7. verb To place in juxtaposition.

Synonyms

apposition collocation

Etymology

Borrowed from French juxtaposition, from Latin iuxtā (“near”) (from Latin iungō (“to join”)) + French position (“position”) (from Latin pōnō (“to place”)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words.

Etymology [L. juxta near + positio position: cf. F. juxtaposition. See Just, v. i., and Position.]

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