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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coincidence

UK /kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/ · US /koʊˈɪnsɪdəns/ noun

Forms coincidences coincidency quincidence

  1. noun The property of being coincident, occurring at the same time or place.
  2. noun The appearance of a meaningful connection between events when there is none. “That the two writers were born and died on the same day is just a coincidence, although there are many conspiracy theories about it.”
  3. noun (mathematical analysis) A coincidence point.
  4. noun (geometry) A fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.
  5. noun Dated spelling of coincidence.

Synonyms

concurrentness coincidence point synchronicity happenstance concurrence conjunction co-occurrence

Etymology

From Middle French coincidence (French coïncidence). By surface analysis, coincide + -ence.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. Bentley.
  2. noun The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

Etymology [Cf. F. coïncidence.]

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

Sanskrit

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