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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reform

UK /ˌɹiːˈfɔːm/ · US /ˌɹiːˈfɔɹm/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms reforms reforming reformed re-form

  1. noun The change of something that is defective, broken, inefficient or otherwise negative, in order to correct or improve it “The elections need to undergo a serious reform.”
  2. verb (transitive) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better. “to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals; to reform a criminal”
  3. verb (intransitive) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits. “It is hoped that many criminals, upon being freed, will eventually reform.”
  4. verb (transitive, intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration. “This product contains reformed meat.”
  5. noun A political movement or party.
  6. noun (specifically Christianity) An evangelical organisation within Anglicanism.
  7. adjective Of Reform Judaism, its tenets, or its adherents.

Synonyms

reformation amendment rectification correction amend correct rectify mend repair better improve restore reclaim Liberal regenerate straighten out see the light

Etymology

From Middle English reformen, from Old French reformer, from Latin reformo, reformare. As a noun since 1660s, from French réforme.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.
  2. verb To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
  3. noun Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government. Civil service reform. See under Civil.

Etymology [F. réformer, L. reformare; pref. re- re- + formare to form, from forma form. See Form.]

Etymology [F. réforme.]

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