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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trimester

UK /ˈtɹ(a)ɪ.mɛs.tə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈt(ʃ)ɹaɪ.mɛs.təɹ/ noun

Forms trimesters

  1. noun A period of three months or about three months; (financial): quarter. “She is in the second trimester of her first pregnancy.”
  2. noun One of the terms of an academic year in those learning institutions that divide their teaching in three roughly equal terms, each about three months long. Compare semester. “The school operates on a trimester schedule.”

Synonyms

trisem

Etymology

From French trimestre, from Latin trimestris (“of three months”), from trēs (“three”) + mensis (“month”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A term or period of three months.

Etymology [L. trimestris of three months; tri- (see Tri-) + mensis month: cf. F. trimestre.]

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