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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apodictic

UK /apəʊˈdɪktɪk/ · US /æpəˈdɪktɪk/ adjective

Also a form of apodeictic

Forms apodeictic

  1. adjective Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
  2. adjective Being a style of argument in which a person presents their reasoning as categorically true, even if it is not necessarily so. “Don’t be so apodictic! You haven’t considered several facets of the question.”
  3. adjective (Biblical studies, theology) Absolute and without explanation, as in a command from God like "Thou shalt not kill!"

Synonyms

apodeictic

Antonyms

problematic assertorical

Etymology

From the Latin apodīcticus (“proving clearly”, “demonstrative”), from the Ancient Greek ἀποδεικτικός (apodeiktikós, “affording proof”, “demonstrative”), from ἀποδείκνυμι (apodeíknumi, “to demonstrate”). In turn, from ἀπο- (apo-, “separate, without”), and δεικτικός (deiktikós, “capable of proof”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction.
  2. adjective Same as Apodeictic.

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