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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autopsy

UK /ˈɔː.tɒp.si/ · US /ˈɔ.tɑp.si/ noun, verb

Forms autopsies autopsying autopsied autopsia

  1. noun A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death. “The autopsy revealed he had died of multiple bullet wounds.”
  2. noun (figuratively) An after-the-fact examination, especially of the causes of a failure.
  3. noun (rare) An eyewitness observation, the presentation of an event as witnessed.
  4. verb (transitive) To perform an autopsy on.
  5. verb (transitive) To perform an after-the-fact analysis of, especially of a failure.

Synonyms

necropsy necrotomy postmortem post-mortem PM postmortem examination post-mortem examination

Etymology

From New Latin autopsia, from Ancient Greek αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ (autopsĭ́ā, “seeing with one's own eyes”). By surface analysis, auto- + -opsy.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view.
  2. noun Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination.

Etymology [Gr. autopsie. See Optic, a.]

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