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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stet

/stɛt/ noun, verb

Forms stets stetting stetted

  1. noun A symbol used by proofreaders and typesetters to indicate that a word or phrase that was crossed out or changed should remain as it was.
  2. noun (law, especially in Maryland) An order staying all proceedings in an action.
  3. verb (transitive) To let (edited material) stand, or remain as it was. “Stet that colon.”
  4. verb (law, especially Maryland) To stay all proceedings in an action.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stet (“let it stand”), an inflection of stō (“to stand”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. Let it stand; --a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.
  2. verb To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.

Etymology [See Stand.]

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