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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palimpsest

/ˈpælɪmpsɛst/ noun, verb

Forms palimpsests palimpsesting palimpsested

  1. noun A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written.
  2. noun (archaic) Monumental brasses that have been reused by engraving of the blank back side.
  3. noun (astronomy) Circular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity.
  4. noun (geology) Geological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface.
  5. noun (computing) Memory that has been erased and re-written.
  6. noun (cultural studies) The partial erasure of or superimposition on an older society or culture by a newer one.
  7. noun Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form.
  8. noun A text with several layers of meaning, especially pertaining to different points in time.
  9. verb To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse.
  10. verb On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by Earth Day.

Synonyms

codex rescriptus

Etymology

From Latin palimpsēstus, from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος (palímpsēstos, “scraped again”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. Longfellow.

Etymology [L. palimpsestus, Gr. palimpseste.]

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