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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recorder

UK /ɹiˈkɔː.də/ · US /ɹiˈkɔɹ.dəɹ/ noun

Forms recorders

  1. noun An apparatus for recording; a device which records.
  2. noun A judge in a municipal court.
  3. noun (music) A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute. “Recorders are made in various sizes, from the high soprano or descant recorder to the low bass recorder.”

Synonyms

English flute sweet flute recording equipment recording machine registrar record-keeper fipple flute fipple pipe vertical flute

Etymology

From Middle English recordour, borrowed from Old French recordour, from Old French recordeor, from Medieval Latin recordātor, from Latin recordor (“call to mind, remember, recollect”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”). By surface analysis, record + -er.

From Middle English recorder, from record (“to practice (music)”); ultimately cognate with Etymology 1.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.
  2. noun The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement.

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