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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scoring

adjective, noun

Also a form of score

Forms scorings

  1. adjective Of something or someone that scores. “The highest scoring team will win the match.”
  2. noun The process of keeping score in a sport or contest. “The scoring of a tennis match is overseen by a single referee.”
  3. noun The process of winning points in a sport or contest. “Scoring a basket in basketball is worth two or three points.”
  4. noun The process of giving a score, such as a grade.
  5. noun (cooking) The process of cutting grooves into food, such as bread or meat (for meat, often a square grid), before baking in the oven.
  6. noun The action of scratching paper or other material to make it easier to fold.
  7. noun A deep groove made by glacial action or similar.

Synonyms

grading scratching groving graving marking

Etymology

Derivative form of score, initially meaning “groove, notch, cut”, stemming from the same root as shear and scar.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “scoring”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details