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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across

/əˈkɹɒs/ preposition, adverb, noun

Forms acrosses acrost

  1. preposition To, toward, or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest). “We rowed across the river.”
  2. preposition On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest). “That store is across the street.”
  3. preposition (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) across from: on the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest).
  4. preposition From one side to the other within (a space being traversed). “The meteor streaked across the sky.”
  5. preposition At or near the far end of (a space).
  6. preposition Spanning. “This poetry speaks across the centuries.”
  7. preposition Throughout. “All across the country, voters were communicating their representatives.”
  8. preposition So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle. “Lay the top stick across the bottom one.”
  9. adverb From one side to the other. “she helped the blind man across; the river is half a mile across”
  10. adverb On the other side. “If we sail off at noon, when will we be across?”
  11. adverb In a particular direction. “He leaned across for a book.”
  12. adverb (crosswording) Horizontally. “I got stuck on 4 across.”
  13. noun (crosswording, often in combination) A word that runs horizontally in the completed puzzle grid or its associated clue. “I solved all of the acrosses, but then got stuck on 3 down.”

Synonyms

crosswise crossways

Etymology

From Middle English acros, from early Middle English a-croiz, a-creoyz, from Anglo-Norman an (“in, on”) + croiz (“in the form of a cross”). More at cross. By surface analysis, a- + cross.

Webster’s 1913

  1. preposition From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river.
  2. adverb From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across. Shak.
  3. adverb Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. [Obs.]

Etymology [Pref. a- + cross: cf. F. en croix. See Cross, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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