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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museum

UK /mjuːˈziːəm/ · US /mjuˈziəm/ noun, verb

Forms museums musea museuming museumed the Museum musæum

  1. noun A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value. “visit the history museum”
  2. verb (ambitransitive) To place in a museum.
  3. verb (intransitive, colloquial) To visit museums.

Etymology

From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)). Doublet of mosaic.

Borrowed from Latin Mūsēum, from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), from Μοῦσα (Moûsa, “Muse”) + -εῖον (-eîon, noun-forming suffix meaning “place or building associated with a specific purpose or person”).
By surface analysis, Muse + -eum.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art. Museum beetle, Museum pest.

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