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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gathering

UK /ˈɡæð.ə.ɹɪŋ/ · US /ˈɡæð.ɚ.ɪŋ/ noun, adjective

Also a form of gather

Forms gatherings

  1. noun A meeting or get-together; a party or social function. “The dinner was a star-spangled gathering unequaled in history.”
  2. noun A group of people or things. “a gathering of Catholics”
  3. noun (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half. “This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.”
  4. noun A charitable contribution; a collection.
  5. noun (uncountable) The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.
  6. noun (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
  7. adjective That gathers together. “She was worried by the gathering stormclouds.”

Synonyms

assemblage affair concourse congregation assembly gather

Etymology

From Middle English gadering, from Old English gaderung (“gathering, assembly”), equivalent to gather + -ing (verbal noun ending).

From Middle English gaderynge, equivalent to gather + -ing (present participle ending).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of collecting or bringing together.
  2. noun That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as: (a) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
  3. adjective Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “gathering”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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