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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pictorial

/pɪkˈtɔɹi.əl/ adjective, noun

Forms pictorials pictoral

  1. adjective Of, relating to, composed of, or illustrated by pictures.
  2. adjective Described or otherwise represented as if in a picture; graphic or vivid.
  3. adjective Stylistically similar to a painting, especially following the conventions of pictorialism.
  4. noun A newspaper or magazine with many pictures, or section thereof. “Sunday Pictorial”
  5. noun An article primarily featuring many photographs, or simply a collection of photographs. “The budding starlet is featured in a pictorial in a glossy magazine next week.”
  6. noun (philately) A stamp featuring a vignette of local scenery or culture.

Synonyms

pictural graphic lifelike vivid

Etymology

From Latin pictōrius (“of painting”) + -al, from pictor (“painter”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. "Pictorial rhetoric." Ruskin.

Etymology [L. pictorius, fr. pictor a painter, fr. pingere to paint. See Paint.]

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