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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erroneous

UK /ɪˈɹəʊni.əs/ · US /ɛˈɹoʊ.ni.əs/ adjective

  1. adjective Containing an error; inaccurate. “His answer to the sum was erroneous.”
  2. adjective Derived from an error. “His conclusion was erroneous, since it was based on a false assumption.”
  3. adjective Mistaken. “Her choice at the line-up proved to be erroneous, as she had only seen the mugger for an instant.”
  4. adjective (obsolete) Wandering; erratic.
  5. adjective (law) Deviating from the requirements of the law, but without a lack of legal authority, thus not illegal. “If, while having the power to act, one commits error in the exercise of that power, he acts erroneously.”

Synonyms

inaccurate incorrect wrong fallacious false faulty flawed mistaken errorful

Antonyms

errorless

Etymology

From late Middle English erroneous, from Middle French erroneux, from Latin erroneus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; --hence, irregular; unnatural. [Obs.] "Erroneous circulation." Arbuthnot.
  2. adjective Misleading; misled; mistaking. [Obs.]

Etymology [L. erroneus, fr. errare to err. See Err.]

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

Sanskrit

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