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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personate

verb, adjective

Forms personates personating personated

  1. verb (transitive) To fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate.
  2. verb (transitive) To portray a character (as in a play); to act.
  3. verb (transitive) To attribute personal characteristics to something; to personify.
  4. verb (transitive) To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
  5. adjective (botany, now uncommon) Having the throat of a corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip (reminiscent of a mask), as in the flower of the snapdragon.
  6. verb (transitive, obsolete) To celebrate loudly; to extol, to praise.

Synonyms

masked pose impersonate personify

Etymology

From Latin persōnātus.

From Latin personō (“cry out”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. [Obs.]
  2. verb To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion. Hammond.
  3. verb To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask. [R.] "A personated mate." Milton.
  4. verb To play or assume a character.

Etymology [L. personare to cry out, LL., to extol. See Person.]

Etymology [L. personatus masked, assumed, fictitious, fr. persona a mask. See Person.]

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