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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theta

UK /ˈθiːtə/ · US /ˈθeɪtə/ noun

Forms thetas

  1. noun The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ.
  2. noun (mathematics) The measure of an angle.
  3. noun (aviation, by extension) Pitch angle; the angle between an aircraft's longitudinal axis and the horizontal plane.
  4. noun (finance) The sensitivity of the value of a derivative with respect to time; the "time decay".
  5. noun (biology) Designating a level of brain activity as measured by electroencephalography having a frequency of between four and seven cycles per second (associated with drowsiness in adults).
  6. noun (phonology) The voiceless dental fricative represented by θ.
  7. noun (US, colloquial) A member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.

Synonyms

deck angle

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θῆτα (thêta).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English; --sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death. Theta function (Math.), one of a group of functions used in developing the properties of elliptic functions.

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