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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postdate

/ˌpəʊstˈdeɪt/ verb, adjective, noun

Forms postdates postdating postdated post-date

  1. verb (transitive) To occur after an event or time; to exist later on in time.
  2. verb (transitive) To assign an effective date to a document or action later than the actual date. “no postdated checks [sign in a retail store]”
  3. verb (transitive) To affix a date to after the event.
  4. adjective (obsolete) Postdated; made or done after the date assigned.
  5. noun A date on a document later than the real date on which it was written.

Synonyms

overdate follow

Antonyms

predate

Etymology

From post- + date.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made.
  2. verb To affix a date to after the event.
  3. adjective Made or done after the date assigned.
  4. noun A date put to a bill of exchange or other paper, later than that when it was actually made.

Etymology [Pref. post- + date.]

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