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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recast

/ɹiːˈkɑːst/ verb, noun

Forms recasts recasting recasted

  1. verb To cast or throw again.
  2. verb To mould again. “The whole bell had to be recast although it had only one tiny, hardly visible crack.”
  3. verb To reproduce in a new form.
  4. verb (transitive, film, theater) To assign (roles in a play or performance) to different actors.
  5. verb (transitive, film, theater) To assign (actors) to different roles. “She was recast as the villain.”
  6. noun The act or process of recasting.
  7. noun (linguistics) An utterance translated into another grammatical form. “Adults may use recasts to suggest corrections to mistakes in children's speech.”

Synonyms

remold remould reforge remodel

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To throw again. Florio.
  2. verb To mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new from a shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a play.

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