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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locus

UK /ˈləʊkəs/ · US /ˈloʊkəs/ noun

Forms loci locuses

  1. noun A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime. “The cafeteria was the locus of activity.”
  2. noun (mathematics) The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition. “A circle is the locus of points from which the distance to the center is a given value, the radius.”
  3. noun (genetics) A fixed position on a string of DNA or RNA, especially a chromosome, that may be occupied by one or more genes.
  4. noun (chiefly in the plural) A passage in writing, especially in a collection of ancient sacred writings arranged according to a theme.

Synonyms

venue locale

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin locus. Doublet of lieu.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A place; a locality.
  2. noun The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law. Plane locus, a locus that is a straight line, or a circle.

Etymology [L., place. Cf. Allow, Couch, Lieu, Local.]

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