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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of

UK /ɒv/ · US /ʌv/ preposition

Also a form of outfielder

Forms OFs ov ob o o' a

  1. preposition (now obsolete or dialectal, except in phrases) From (a place); off. “Take the chicken out of the freezer.”
  2. preposition (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). “He hasn't been well of late.”
  3. preposition From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). “There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.”
  4. preposition Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object. “Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.”
  5. preposition Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective. “He seemed devoid of human feelings.”
  6. preposition (obsolete) Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.
  7. preposition Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent. “The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.”
  8. preposition Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual. “Jesus of Nazareth (after hometown)”

Etymology

From Middle English of, from Old English of (“from, out of, off”), an unstressed form of æf, from Proto-West Germanic *ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“away; away from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away”). Doublet of off, which is the stressed descendant of the same Old English word. More at off.

A spelling of /əv/ influenced by Etymology 1.

Webster’s 1913

  1. preposition In a general sense, from, or out from; proceeding from; belonging to; relating to; concerning; --used in a variety of applications; as:
  2. preposition Denoting that from which anything proceeds; indicating origin, source, descent, and the like; as, he is of a race of kings; he is of noble blood.

Etymology [AS. of of, from, off; akin to D. & OS. af, G. ab off, OHG. aba from, away, Icel., Dan., Sw., & Goth. af, L. ab, Gr. apa. Cf.Off, A- (2), Ab-, After, Epi-.]

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