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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textbook

/ˈtɛkst.bʊk/ noun, adjective

Forms textbooks text-book

  1. noun (education) A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.
  2. adjective (literally) Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
  3. adjective (figuratively) Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook. “textbook case”
  4. adjective (figuratively) Done exactly correctly, in an exemplary way that might be described in a textbook. “Well done everyone, the tree fell exactly where we planned. That was textbook.”
  5. adjective (figuratively) Learned from, or as if learned from, a textbook, as opposed to personal discovery or experience. “He has a textbook understanding of company law but no practical experience of litigation.”

Synonyms

text text edition schoolbook school text casebook

Etymology

From text + book.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “textbook”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “textbook” (best matches first).