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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underline

UK /ˈʌndəˌlaɪn/ · US /ˈʌndɚˌlaɪn/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms underlines underlining underlined

  1. noun A line placed underneath a piece of text in order to provide emphasis or to indicate that it should be viewed in italics or (in electronic documents) that it acts as a hyperlink.
  2. noun (uncommon) The character _.
  3. noun (dated) An announcement of a theatrical performance to follow, placed in an advertisement for the current one.
  4. noun (dated) A caption beneath a photograph (which may have more than one line of text).
  5. verb To draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis. “underline the important words in the text”
  6. verb (figuratively) To emphasise or stress something.
  7. verb (figurative, obsolete) To influence secretly.
  8. adjective Passing under a railway line.

Synonyms

underscore low line emphasize emphasise

Etymology

From under- + line.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To mark a line below, as words; to underscore.
  2. verb To influence secretly. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

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