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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reconstruction

UK /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/ · US /ˌɹikənˈstɹʌkʃən/ noun, proper noun

Forms reconstructions the Reconstruction

  1. noun The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state.
  2. noun The act of restoring something to an earlier state. “The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year.”
  3. noun The recreation or retelling of the (purported) events leading up to a certain outcome. “The detective's reconstruction of what happened that night is dubious.”
  4. noun (linguistics) A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.
  5. proper noun A period of the history of the United States from 1865 to 1877, during which the nation tried to resolve the status of the ex-Confederate states, the ex-Confederate leaders, and the Freedmen (ex-slaves) after the American Civil War. “Fables of the Reconstruction”

Synonyms

Reconstruction Period reconstructive memory

Etymology

A proper-noun variant of reconstruction.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.
  2. noun The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reëstablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War.

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