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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perjure

UK /ˈpɜːd͡ʒə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈpɝd͡ʒɚ/ verb, noun

Forms perjures perjuring perjured

  1. verb (reflexive) To knowingly and willfully make a false statement of witness while in court. “He perjured himself.”
  2. verb (transitive) To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt.
  3. verb (transitive) To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations.
  4. noun (obsolete) A perjured person.

Synonyms

forswear manswear misswear

Etymology

From Old French parjurer, from Latin periūrō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt; --often used reflexively; as, he perjured himself.
  2. verb To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations.
  3. noun A perjured person. [Obs.] Shak.

Etymology [F. parjurer, L. perjurare, perjerare; per through, over + jurare to swear. See Jury.]

Etymology [L. perjurus: cf. OF. parjur, F. parjure.]

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