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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“corridors” is a form of

corridor

UK /ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/ · US /ˈkoɹəˌdoɹ/ noun

Forms corridors

  1. noun A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
  2. noun A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
  3. noun (military, historical, rare) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
  4. noun Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
  5. noun The land near an important road, river, railway line. “Main Street corridor”

Etymology

Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.
  2. noun The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place. [R.]

Etymology [F., fr. Itt. corridpore, or Sp. corredor; prop., a runner, hence, a running or long line, a gallery, fr. L. currere to run. See Course.]

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