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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riverside

/ˈɹɪvɚˌsaɪd/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms riversides

  1. noun A bank or side of a river. “Gonna lay down my burden; Down by the riverside...”
  2. adjective At or near the side of a river.
  3. proper noun A place name applied to a locality, especially a city, that is situated beside a river.
  4. proper noun A moniker of anything that becomes associated with such a locality, such as an event, school, or organization.
  5. proper noun A locality in the Port Macquarie-Hastings council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  6. proper noun A residential suburb of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
  7. proper noun A locality in the Rural City of Horsham, western Victoria, Australia.
  8. proper noun A neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta.
  9. proper noun A former rural municipality of Manitoba.
  10. proper noun A community in Middlesex County, Ontario.

Synonyms

riverbank riparian Poblacion

Etymology

From river + side, see riverside.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The side or bank of a river.

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