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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correct

/kəˈɹɛkt/ adjective, adverb, interjection, noun, verb

Forms corrects correcting corrected correctest correctedst correcteth

  1. adjective Free from error; true; accurate. “Your test was completely correct, you get 10 out of 10”
  2. adjective With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
  3. adverb Correctly. “Hope I spelt your name correct.”
  4. interjection Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
  5. noun A correct response.
  6. verb (transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from. “You'll need to correct your posture if you're going to be a professional dancer.”
  7. verb (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers). “The teacher stayed up all night correcting exams.”
  8. verb (transitive) To inform (someone) of their error. “It's rude to correct your parents.”
  9. verb (transitive) To discipline; to punish.

Synonyms

faithful right well-behaved well-mannered civil gracious civilized complaisant courteous cultivated fair-mannered genteel mannerly polished polite politic reasonable refined urbane well-bred rectify compensate redress chastise castigate objurgate chasten counterbalance make up even out

Antonyms

incorrect inaccurate wrong bastard counterfactual erroneous fallacious false off counterfeit fictitious invented falsify

Etymology

Borrowed from French correct, from Latin correctus (“improved, amended, correct”), past participle of corrigere, conrigere (“to make straight, make right, make better, improve, correct”), from con- (“together”) + combining form of regō, regere (“I rule, make straight”).

From Middle English correcten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman correcter, from Latin correctus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; nnot faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.
  2. verb To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.
  3. verb To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).

Etymology [L. correctus, p. p. of corrigere to make straight, to correct; cor- + regere to lead straight: cf. F. correct. See Regular, Right, and cf. Escort.]

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

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