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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memoir

UK /ˈmɛmˌwɑː/ · US /ˈmɛmˌwɑɹ/ noun

Forms memoirs

  1. noun An autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author. “When I retire, I'm going to write my memoirs.”
  2. noun A biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject. “James wrote a memoir of his grandmother shortly after she passed away.”
  3. noun Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer.

Etymology

Borrowed from French mémoire, from Middle French memoire, from Old French memoire, from Latin memoria. Doublet of memoria and memory.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.
  2. noun A memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a biography written without special regard to method and completeness.

Etymology [F. mémoire, m., memorandum, fr. mémoire, f., memory, L. memoria. See Memory.]

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