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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

recollection

/ɹɛkəˈlɛkʃən/ noun

Forms recollections re-collection

  1. noun The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the act of recalling to memory.
  2. noun The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance. “Alas that distant event isn't within my recollection anymore.”
  3. noun That which is recollected; something called to mind; a reminiscence. “One of his earliest recollections.”
  4. noun (archaic or Catholicism) The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control. “From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection.”
  5. noun (Catholicism) A spiritual retreat, especially one that is short.
  6. noun Process of collecting again.

Synonyms

reminiscence remembrance memory mind recall anamnesis

Antonyms

lethe misrecollection forgetfulness forgetness oblivion obliviousness

Etymology

Via French récollection or the verb recollect, both from Latin recollectus, the past participle of recolligere (“to collect again”), itself from re- + colligere (“to gather”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.
  2. noun The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection.

Etymology [Cf. F. récollection.]

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

Sanskrit

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