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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manner

UK /ˈmænə/ · US /ˈmænɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms manners mannering mannered

  1. noun Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything.
  2. noun Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing. “His natural manner makes him seem like the boss.”
  3. noun One's customary method of acting; habit. “These people have strange manners.”
  4. noun Good, polite behaviour.
  5. noun The style of writing or thought of an author; the characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
  6. noun A certain degree or measure. “It is in a manner done already.”
  7. noun Sort; kind; style. “All manner of persons participate.”
  8. noun Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.
  9. verb (transitive) To instill manners into.
  10. noun (in combination, rare) Something involving or requiring the specified number of men or people.
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

method style form fashion way air comportment mien abear abearance bearing behavior carriage conduct deportment demeanor guise haviour appearance aspect mode personal manner

Etymology

From Middle English manere, maner, from Anglo-Norman manere, from Old French maniere, from Vulgar Latin *manāria, from feminine of Latin manuarius (“belonging to the hand”), from manus (“hand”). Compare French manière, Italian mannaia (“ax, axe”), Portuguese maneira and maneiro (“handy, portable”), Romanian mâner (“handle”), and Spanish manera. Displaced native Old English hād (“nature, manner”).

From man + -er.

From the Norman surname, Mesnières in France, itself from a derivative of Latin manere (“to stay”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.
  2. noun Characteristic mode of acting, conducting, carrying one's self, or the like; bearing; habitual style. Specifically: (a) Customary method of acting; habit.

Etymology [OE. manere, F. manière, from OF. manier, adj., manual, skillful, handy, fr. (assumed) LL. manarius, for L. manuarius belonging to the hand, fr. manus the hand. See Manual.]

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

Sanskrit

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