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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normally

UK /ˈnɔː.mə.li/ · US /ˈnɔɹ.mə.li/ adverb

  1. adverb Under normal conditions or circumstances; usually; most of the time “Normally, I eat breakfast at 6am, but today, I got up late and didn't eat until 9.”
  2. adverb In the expected or customary manner. “Lisa ate normally, until she realised that she was late for choir, when she sped up.”
  3. adverb To a usual or customary extent or degree. “He was abnormally agitated, she only normally so.”
  4. adverb (mathematics, statistics) In the manner of a variable with a Gaussian distribution.

Synonyms

commonly customarily averagely frequently ordinarily habitually routinely as a matter of course as a rule generally in general regularly typically unexceptionally usually wontedly wontly unremarkably

Antonyms

atypically exceptionally irregularly unusually

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb In a normal manner. Darwin.

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