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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mileage

/ˈmaɪləd͡ʒ/ noun

Forms mileages milage

  1. noun The total distance travelled in miles or in air miles.
  2. noun The number of miles travelled by a vehicle on a certain volume of fuel.
  3. noun An allowance for travel expenses at a specified rate per mile.
  4. noun A fee based on miles of use, as of an automobile or a railroad car.
  5. noun (informal) The amount of service that something has yielded or may yield in future. “This old PC has still got plenty of mileage in it.”
  6. noun (informal) Something worth taking into consideration. “There’s some mileage in your argument.”
  7. noun (slang) The total number of a person's past sexual encounters.

Synonyms

body count milage fuel consumption rate gasoline mileage gas mileage

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.
  2. noun Aggregate length or distance in miles; esp., the sum of lengths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company, etc. [Written also milage.] Constructive mileage, a mileage allowed for journeys supposed to be made, but not actually made. Bartlett.

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