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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anomaly

UK /əˈnɒm.ə.lɪ/ · US /əˈnɑ.mə.li/ noun

Forms anomalies

  1. noun A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
  2. noun Something or someone that is strange or unusual. “He is an anomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.”
  3. noun (sciences) Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not. “She disregarded some of the anomalies in the experiment, putting them down to miscalculation.”
  4. noun (astronomy) Any of various angular distances.
  5. noun (biology) A defect or malformation.
  6. noun (quantum mechanics) A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
  7. noun (dated) An irregularity or disproportion.

Synonyms

abnormality deviance deviation exception inconsistency irregularity phenomenon aberrant deviant farlie freak odd fish oddity outlier peculiarity queerness rarity rum strange fish strangeness anomalousness unusual person

Etymology

From Latin anomalia, from Ancient Greek ἀνωμαλία (anōmalía, “irregularity, anomaly”), from ἀνώμαλος (anṓmalos, “irregular, uneven”), negating the meaning of ὁμαλός (homalós, “even”), from ὁμός (homós, “same”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.
  2. noun (a) The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform.

Etymology [L. anomalia, Gr. Anomalous.]

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