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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September

UK /sɛpˈtɛmbə/ · US /sɛpˈtɛmbɚ/ proper noun

Forms Septembers Sep Sept Sep. Sept. Septembre

  1. proper noun The ninth month of the Gregorian calendar, following August and preceding October, containing the southward equinox. “Late September is a beautiful time of year.”
  2. proper noun (rare) Celi, the Roman goddess of September.
  3. proper noun (rare) A male or female given name transferred from the month name [in turn from English].

Synonyms

Ninth Month Sep Sept

Etymology

From Middle English, from late Old English, from Old French septembre, Latin September (“seventh month”), from septem (“seven”), which see; September was the seventh month in the Roman calendar.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The ninth month of the year, containing thurty days.

Etymology [L., fr. septem seven, as being the seventh month of the Roman year, which began with March: cf. F. septembre. See Seven.]

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