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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leakage

/ˈliːkɪd͡ʒ/ noun

Forms leakages

  1. noun An act of leaking, or something that leaks. “water leakage”
  2. noun The amount lost due to a leak.
  3. noun An undesirable flow of electric current through insulation.
  4. noun Loss of retail stock, especially due to theft.
  5. noun (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
  6. noun (economics) The loss of revenue generated by tourism to the economies of other countries.

Synonyms

escape leak outflow

Etymology

Cf. D. lekkage, for sense 1.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.
  2. noun An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.

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