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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rift

/ɹɪft/ noun, verb

Forms rifts rifting rifted

  1. noun A chasm or fissure. “The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.”
  2. noun (figurative) A lack of cohesion; a state of conflict, incompatibility, or emotional distance. “My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.”
  3. noun A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
  4. noun A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
  5. verb (intransitive) To form a rift; to split open.
  6. verb (transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split. “to rift an oak”
  7. verb (obsolete outside Scotland and northern UK) To belch.

Synonyms

rupture breach break severance falling out

Etymology

From Middle English rift, of North Germanic origin; akin to Danish rift, Norwegian Bokmål rift (“breach”), Old Norse rífa (“to tear”). More at rive.

From Old Norse rypta.

Webster’s 1913

  1. p. p. of Rive. Spenser.
  2. noun An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
  3. noun A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
  4. verb To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds. Longfellow.

Etymology [Dan. rift, fr. rieve to rend. See Rive.]

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