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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recitation

UK /ˌɹɛsɪˈteɪʃən/ · US /ˌɹɛsəˈteɪʃən/ noun

Forms recitations

  1. noun The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.
  2. noun The material recited.
  3. noun A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture.
  4. noun A reiteration; a setting down, e.g. for ease of reference, of something previously established.
  5. noun (music) A part of a song's lyrics that is spoken rather than sung.

Synonyms

recital reading course session class period exercise practice drill practice session

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French récitation, from Latin recitatio, equivalent to recite + -ation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.
  2. noun The delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered.

Etymology [L. recitatio: cf. F. récitation. See Recite.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “recitation” (best matches first).

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