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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brief

UK /ˈbɹiːf/ · US /ˈbɹif/ adjective, noun, verb, adverb

Also a form of briefs

Forms briefer briefest briefs briefing briefed

  1. adjective Of short duration; happening quickly. “Her reign was brief but spectacular.”
  2. adjective Concise; taking few words. “His speech of acceptance was brief but moving.”
  3. adjective Occupying a small distance, area or spatial extent; short.
  4. adjective (obsolete) Rife; common; prevalent.
  5. noun (law) A writ summoning one to answer; an official letter or mandate.
  6. noun (Roman Catholicism) A short papal letter.
  7. noun (law) An answer to any action.
  8. noun (law) A memorandum of points of fact or of law for use in conducting a case.
  9. noun (by extension, figurative) A position of interest or advocacy.
  10. noun (law) An attorney's legal argument in written form for submission to a court.
  11. noun (English law) The material relevant to a case, delivered by a solicitor to the barrister who is counsel for the case.
  12. noun (English law, slang) A barrister who is counsel for a party in a legal action.
  13. verb (transitive) To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power. “The U.S. president was briefed on the military coup and its implications on African stability.”
  14. verb (transitive, law) To write a legal argument and submit it to a court.
  15. adverb (obsolete, poetic) Briefly.
  16. adverb (obsolete, poetic) Soon; quickly.

Synonyms

temporal legal brief abbreviated

Etymology

From Middle English breef, breve, bref, from Old French brief, bref, from Latin brevis (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“short, brief”). Doublet of breve and merry.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Short in duration.
  2. adjective Concise; terse; succinct.
  3. adverb Briefly. [Obs. or Poetic]
  4. adverb Soon; quickly. [Obs.] Shak.

Etymology [OE. bref, F. brief, bref, fr. L. brevis; akin to Gr. barh to tear. Cf. Breve.]

Etymology [See Brief, a., and cf. Breve.]

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

Sanskrit

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