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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author

UK /ˈɔː.θə/ · US /ˈɔ.θɚ/ noun, verb

Forms authors authoring authored aucthor aucthour auctor auctour auctoure authour authoure autor autour autoure

  1. noun The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work. “The copyright of any original writing belongs initially and properly to its author.”
  2. noun (US copyright law) The initial owner of the copyright to a work, especially a work made for hire or a work of corporate authorship. “The author named on the copyright registration for the Android robot is Google Inc.”
  3. noun Someone who writes books for a living.
  4. noun (obsolete, criminal law) Principal; the primary participant in a crime.
  5. noun (archaic) One's authority for something: an informant.
  6. noun (figurative) The creator or cause of anything.
  7. verb (chiefly US, sometimes proscribed) To create a work as its author.

Synonyms

bookwright creator artist subcreator fabulator writer generator source

Etymology

From Middle English auctour, from Anglo-Norman autour, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from augeō (“to increase, originate”). The h, also found in Middle French autheur, is unetymological as there is no h in the original Latin spelling. The OED attributes the h to contamination by authentic. Doublet of auteur.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.
  2. noun One who composes or writers a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.
  3. verb To occasion; to originate. [Obs.]
  4. verb To tell; to say; to declare. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. authour, autour, OF. autor, F. auteur, fr. L. auctor, sometimes, but erroneously, written autor or author, fr. augere to increase, to produce. See Auction, n.]

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

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