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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incorrigible

UK /ɪnˈkɒɹɪdʒəb(ə)l/ · US /ɪnˈkɔɹɪd͡ʒəb(ə)l/ adjective, noun

Forms incorrigibles

  1. adjective Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright. “The construction flaw is incorrigible; any attempt to amend it would cause a complete collapse.”
  2. adjective Unmanageable; impervious to correction by punishment or pain. “an incorrigible youth”
  3. adjective Incurably depraved; not reformable. “His dark soul was too incorrigible to repent, even at his execution.”
  4. adjective Unchangeably established in a belief or habit.
  5. adjective (philosophy, of a proposition or belief) Intrinsically incapable of being corrected; impossible to disprove, by its very nature. “The statement "My knee hurts" is incorrigible.”
  6. adjective (archaic, of a disease) Impossible to cure.
  7. noun An incorrigibly bad person. “The incorrigibles in the prison population are either lifers or habitual reoffenders.”

Synonyms

irreparable uncorrectable irredeemable unreformable reprobate determined dyed-in-the-wool hopeless incurable unalterable axiomatic unfalsifiable

Antonyms

corrigible correctable

Etymology

From Middle English incorrigible, from Middle French incorrigible (1334), or directly from Latin incorrigibilis (“not to be corrected”), from in- (“not”) + corrigere (“to correct”) + -ibilis (“-able”), equivalent to in- + corrigible. Recorded since 1340.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error.
  2. noun One who is corrigible; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles.

Etymology [L. incorrigibilis: cf. F. incorrigible. See In- not, and Corrigible.]

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