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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recursive

/ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/ adjective

  1. adjective Drawing upon, invoking, or referring back to itself. “the recursive nature of stories which borrow from each other”
  2. adjective (mathematics, not comparable) Having to do with an object (typically a function or formula) which is defined in terms of the object itself.
  3. adjective (computing, not comparable) Having to do with an algorithm, program, subroutine, procedure, function, or other block of code that calls itself.
  4. adjective (computing theory, not comparable) Having to do with a function which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer in a finite amount of time.
  5. adjective (computing theory, not comparable) Having to do with a set whose characteristic function is recursive (sense 4).

Synonyms

self-referential

Antonyms

non-recursive

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin recursīvus. Equivalent to recurse + -ive.

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