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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orotund

UK /ˈɒɹə(ʊ)tʌnd/ · US /ˈɔɹə(ʊ)ˌtʌnd/ adjective, noun

Forms orotunds

  1. adjective Of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound; hence, of a person: having a clear, full, and strong voice, appropriate for public speaking, reading aloud, etc.
  2. adjective Of writing, etc.: clear, effective, powerful.
  3. adjective (derogatory) Of speech or writing: bombastic, pompous.
  4. noun (countable) A voice characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound.
  5. noun (uncountable) The quality of clarity, effectiveness, and power in speech or writing.

Synonyms

ore rotundo resonant rotund booming boom-boom canorous remugient resounding reverberant sonoral sonorous tympanic vibrant grandiloquent magniloquent tumid turgid bombastic declamatory large round pear-shaped

Etymology

The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin ōre rotundō (“with a round mouth; hence, clear; loud”) (whence English ore rotundo), possibly influenced by rotund (“having a curved, round, or spherical shape; (figurative) of sound: full and rich”). Ōre rotundō is composed of ōre (the ablative singular of ōs (“mouth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s (“mouth”)) + rotundō (the ablative singular of rotundus (“circular, round”) (possibly from rota (“wheel”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run”)) + -undus (suffix forming adjectives)).
The noun is derived from the adjective.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and smoothness; ringing and musical; --said of the voice or manner of utterance.
  2. adjective The orotund voice or utterance Rush.

Etymology [L. os, oris, the mouth + rotundus round, smooth.]

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