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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acclaim

/əˈkleɪm/ verb, noun

Forms acclaims acclaiming acclaimed

  1. verb (archaic, transitive) To shout; to call out.
  2. verb (transitive) To express great approval (for). “a highly-acclaimed novel”
  3. verb (transitive, rare) To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.
  4. verb (transitive, obsolete) To claim.
  5. verb (transitive) To declare by acclamations.
  6. verb (Canada, politics) To elect (a politician, etc.) to an office automatically because no other candidates run; elect by acclamation.
  7. noun (poetic) An acclamation; a shout of applause.
  8. noun (obsolete) A claim.

Synonyms

applaud cheer on hurrah acclamate hail barrack beclap cheer clap encheer hurray huzzah acclamation plaudits plaudit eclat herald spat

Etymology

* First attested in the early 14th century.
* (to applaud): First attested in the 1630s.
* Borrowed from Latin acclāmō (“raise a cry at; applaud”), formed from ad- + clāmō (“cry out, shout”).

* First attested in 1667.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson.
  2. verb To declare by acclamations.
  3. verb To shout applause.
  4. noun Acclamation. [Poetic] Milton.

Etymology [L. acclamare; ad + clamare to cry out. See Claim, Clamor.]

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