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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omission

UK /ə(ʊ)ˈmɪʃ.ən/ · US /oʊˈmɪʃ.ən/ noun

Forms omissions

  1. noun (uncountable) The act of omitting.
  2. noun (uncountable) The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do. “E&O insurance (for errors and omissions) covers both errors of commission and errors of omission.”
  3. noun (countable) An instance of those acts, or the thing left out thereby; something deleted or left out. “The suspicious omissions in the new edition of the book attracted claims of censorship.”
  4. noun Something not done or neglected. “The lack of a sponge count was an omission by the surgical team.”
  5. noun (grammar) The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.

Synonyms

preterition skip deletion

Etymology

From Middle English omissioun, from Old French omission, from Late Latin omissio, omissionem, from Latin omitto.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty.
  2. noun That which is omitted or is left undone.

Etymology [L. omissio: cf. F. omission. See Omit.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “omission” (best matches first).

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