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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sermon

UK /ˈsɜː.mən/ · US /ˈsɝ.mən/ noun, verb

Forms sermons sermoning sermoned sarmon

  1. noun Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
  2. noun A lengthy speech of reproval.
  3. verb To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
  4. verb To tutor; to lecture.

Synonyms

browbeating dressing down lecture berating chiding chockling correption dirdum down the banks going over jawing objurgation rixation scolding throughgoing discourse preaching

Etymology

From Middle English sermoun, from Anglo-Norman sermun and/or Old French sermon, from Latin sermō, sermōnem, from Proto-Indo-European *sermō, from *ser- (“to bind”) + *-mō. Displaced native Old English wordpredicung, literally word + preaching.

From Middle English sermonen, from Old French sermoner, from sermon (see above).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermens of Chaucer. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. noun Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture.
  3. verb To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon. [Obs.]
  4. verb To discourse to or of, as in a sermon. [Obs.] Spenser.

Etymology [OE. sermoun, sermun, F. sermon, fr. L. sermo, - onis, a speaking, discourse, probably fr. serer, sertum, to join, connect; hence, a connected speech. See Series.]

Etymology [Cf. OF. sermoner, F. sermonner to lecture one.]

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