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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phonograph

UK /ˈfəʊnəˌɡɹɑːf/ · US /ˈfoʊnəˌɡɹæf/ noun, verb

Forms phonographs phonographing phonographed

  1. noun A device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.
  2. noun (UK, historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.
  3. noun (Canada, US, historical) A record player.
  4. noun (dated) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, especially one used in phonography.
  5. verb (transitive, dated) To record for playback by phonograph.
  6. verb (transitive, dated) To transcribe into phonographic symbols.

Synonyms

talking phonograph gramophone record player

Etymology

From phono- + -graph.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.
  2. noun An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.

Etymology [Phono- + -graph.]

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