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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scrupulous

/ˈskɹuː.pjə.ləs/ adjective

  1. adjective Exactly and carefully conducted.
  2. adjective Having scruples or compunctions.
  3. adjective Precise; exact or strict. “He is scrupulous in his finances.”
  4. adjective Wrongly feeling guilt or anxiety about one’s morality; suffering from scrupulosity. “Because I have a scrupulous conscience, I sometimes need to be reminded that not everything I do is sinful.”

Synonyms

meticulous painstaking accurate careful surgical comprehensive solicitous conscientious exhaustive fastidious groundly in-depth intensive letter-perfect mindful minute particular polished precise punctilious

Antonyms

unscrupulous Machiavellian

Etymology

From Middle French scrupuleux, from Latin scrupulosus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Full ofscrupules; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong.
  2. adjective Careful; cautious; exact; nice; as, scrupulous abstinence from labor; scrupulous performance of duties.

Etymology [L. scrupulosus: cf. F. scrupuleux.]

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