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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misconduct

UK /mɪsˈkɒndʌkt/ · US /mɪsˈkɑndʌkt/ noun, verb

Forms misconducts misconducting misconducted

  1. noun Behavior that is considered to be unacceptable. “The student was banned from using the university's computing resources for two weeks due to gross misconduct on the Internet.”
  2. noun A penalty or write-up for improper behavior.
  3. verb (transitive) To mismanage.
  4. verb (reflexive) To behave inappropriately, to misbehave.
  5. verb (intransitive, rare) To act improperly.

Synonyms

wrongdoing wrongful conduct actus reus misbehave misdemean mismanage mishandle

Etymology

From mis- + conduct (noun sense).

From mis- + conduct (verb sense).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison.
  2. verb To conduct amiss; to mismanage. Johnson. To misconduct one's self, to behave improperly.
  3. verb To behave amiss.

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

Sanskrit

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

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