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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behavior

UK /bɪˈheɪ.vjə/ · US /bɪˈheɪ.vjəɹ/ noun

Forms behaviors behaviour behavoure behavier behavor behavour

  1. noun (uncountable) Human conduct relative to social norms.
  2. noun (countable) An inappropriate or forbidden action. “When a patient has a behavior, document it in their records.”
  3. noun (countable, uncountable) The way or manner a living creature behaves or acts generally.
  4. noun (uncountable, informal) A state of probation about one's conduct. “He was on his best behavior when her family visited.”
  5. noun (countable, uncountable, biology, psychology) An observable response produced by an organism.
  6. noun (uncountable) The way a device or system operates.

Synonyms

comportment conduct demeanor deportment behaviour doings demeanour

Etymology

From Middle English behavoure, behaver, from behaven (modern behave), morphologically equivalent to behave + -ior. The suffix was adopted in imitation of havour (modern haviour, havior), an etymologically unrelated word that was corrupted from Anglo‐Norman Anglo-Norman aveir and Old French Old French avoir (“property, wealth”) through false association with the native English verb have. The French term derives ultimately from Latin Latin habēre (“to have, hold”).
Compare Scots havings (“behavior”), from have (“to behave”). Replaced Old English ġebǣru.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; --used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.

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