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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nonage

UK /ˈnəʊnɪd͡ʒ/ · US /ˈnoʊnəd͡ʒ/ noun

Forms nonages

  1. noun The state of being under legal age; minority, the fact of being a minor.
  2. noun (obsolete, rare) A payment formerly made to the parish clergy upon the death of a parishioner, consisting of a ninth of the movable goods.

Synonyms

minority

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman nounage, corresponding to non- + age.

From Late Latin nonagium, from nōnus (“ninth”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes. Mozley & W.
  2. noun Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal immaturity; minority.

Etymology [LL. nonagium, from L. nonus ninth, novem nine.]

Etymology [Pref. non- + age.]

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