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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rendition

/ɹɛnˈdɪʃ(ə)n/ noun, verb

Forms renditions renditioning renditioned

  1. noun An interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work.
  2. noun A given visual reproduction of something.
  3. noun Translation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or work.
  4. noun (law, chiefly US) Formal deliverance of a verdict.
  5. noun (law, chiefly US) The handing-over of someone wanted for justice who has fled a given jurisdiction.
  6. noun (now rare) The surrender (of a city, fortress etc.).
  7. noun (now rare) The handing over of a person or thing.
  8. verb (transitive) To surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially, for one jurisdiction to do so to another.

Synonyms

interpretation rendering extradition interpreting

Etymology

From obsolete French rendition, alteration (after rendre (“to render”)) of reddition (“reddition”). Many senses influenced by render.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign government; also, surrender in war. The rest of these brave men that suffered in cold blood after articles of rendition. Evelyn.
  2. noun Translation; rendering; version.

Etymology [LL. rendere to render: cf. L. redditio. See Render, and cf. Reddition.]

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