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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overprint

/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌpɹɪnt/ noun, verb

Forms overprints overprinting overprinted

  1. noun (philately) An addition of new text on a previously printed stamp, usually to add a surcharge or change the face value.
  2. noun (geology, by analogy) The set of petrological, structural, and/or mineralogical characteristics superimposed onto rock by the action of geological processes over deep time.
  3. verb To print over what has already been printed.
  4. verb (transitive, philately) To add an overprint to (a stamp).
  5. verb (geology, by analogy) To superimpose a new set of petrological, structural, and/or mineralogical characteristics onto rock by the action of geological processes over deep time.
  6. verb (transitive) To print too many copies of. “The unpopular comic book was overprinted, leaving many retailers with dozens of unsaleable copies.”
  7. verb (printing) To overlap different colours to avoid gaps.

Synonyms

surprint print over

Etymology

From over- + print.

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