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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not

UK /nɒt/ · US /nɑt/ adverb, conjunction, interjection, noun

Also a form of note nut

Forms not! nots Nut Nunut Nenet Nuit

  1. adverb Negates the meaning of the modified verb. “Did you take out the trash? — No, I did not. I do not think it was my turn, was it?”
  2. adverb To no degree. “That is not red; it's green.”
  3. adverb (litotes) Used to indicate the opposite or near opposite, often in a form of understatement. “After not a few threats, they got what they’d been after for so long.”
  4. adverb Used before a determiner phrase, a pronominal phrase etc. to convey a negative attitude (e.g. denial, sadness, anger) towards something. “Oh god, not that! Anything but that!”
  5. adverb (ironic, informal, originally African-American Vernacular) Used before a non-finite clause (especially a gerund-participial clause) or less commonly a determiner phrase to ironically convey some attitude (e.g. surprise, incredulity, amusement, or embarrassment) towards something. “Not me writing example sentences again.”
  6. conjunction And not. “I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.”
  7. interjection (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. “I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney … not!”
  8. noun An instance of using the word “not”; a negation or denial.
  9. noun (mathematics, logic) A unary operation on logical values that changes true to false, and false to true.

Synonyms

I don't think psych bender ¬ ! ~ ˈ non

Etymology

From Middle English not, nat, a variant of noght, naht (“not, nothing”), from Old English *nōht, nāht (“nought, nothing”), shortening of nōwiht, nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “not anything”), from Proto-West Germanic *naiwwiht, corresponding to ne (“not”) + ōwiht, āwiht (“anything”), corresponding to ā (“ever, always”) + wiht (“thing, creature”).
Cognate with Scots nat, naucht (“not”), Saterland Frisian nit (“not”), West Frisian net (“not”), Dutch niet (“not”), German nicht (“not”). Compare nought, naught and aught. More at no, wight, whit.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Shorn; shaven. [Obs.] See Nott.
  2. adverb A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal.

Etymology [OE. not, noht, nought, naught, the same word as E. naught. See Naught.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “not”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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