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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seating

/ˈsiːtɪŋ/ noun

Also a form of seat

Forms seatings

  1. noun (gerund) The act of one that seats. “The seating of passengers will begin soon.”
  2. noun (uncountable) The provision of chairs or other places for people to sit. “There is plenty of comfortable seating.”
  3. noun (countable) A period of time in which people are allowed into a performance, a meal, etc., to be seated. “The first seating begins at 5 o'clock.”
  4. noun Material for making seats. “cane seating”
  5. noun (obsolete) Haircloth.
  6. noun (mechanics) Collectively, the various fitted supports of the parts of a structure or of a machine; a housing in which a component is seated.
  7. noun (shipbuilding) That part of the floor which rests on the keel.

Synonyms

seats seating room seating area

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of providong with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.
  2. noun The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.

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