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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impute

UK /ɪmˈpjuːt/ · US /ɪmˈpjut/ verb

Forms imputes imputing imputed

  1. verb (transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source. “The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.”
  2. verb (transitive, theology) To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
  3. verb (transitive) To take into account.
  4. verb (transitive) To attribute, ascribe, blame, or credit to. “People impute great cleverness to cats.”
  5. verb (transitive, statistics) To replace missing data with substituted values.

Synonyms

attribute insinuate charge imply accredit ascribe attach chalk up to draw lay put down to repose consider regard reckon assign allege

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French imputer, from Latin imputō (“to bring into the reckoning, charge, impute”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; --generally in a bad sense.
  2. verb To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us. It was imputed to him for righteousness. Rom. iv. 22.

Etymology [F. imputer, L. imputare to bring into the reckoning, charge, impute; pref. im- in + putare to reckon, think. See Putative.]

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