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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meanwhile

/ˈmiːnwaɪl/ noun, adverb

Forms meanwhiles

  1. noun The time between two events.
  2. adverb During the time that something is happening, often specifically in a different place. “There was a party going on downstairs. Meanwhile, I was reading a book.”
  3. adverb During an intervening time; from now until a future time. “We’re going on holiday next month; meanwhile, keep working on the project.”
  4. adverb In contrast to aspects previously mentioned. “Some songs on the album are beautiful. Meanwhile, others are quite forgettable.”

Synonyms

between-time meantime in the meantime meanwhilst the while until then for now at the same time on the other hand interim lag

Etymology

From Middle English menewhile, equivalent to mean (“intermediate”) + while. Adverb is by ellipsis from in the mean while, noun being conventionally written as one word after the adjective.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).
  2. adverb In the intervening time; during the interval.

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