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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utterance

/ˈʌtəɹəns/ noun

Forms utterances utteraunce

  1. noun An act of, or the process of, uttering.
  2. noun An instance of that act or process: especially, something spoken (e.g., syllables, words, phrases); (especially linguistics) any such thing either spoken or written.
  3. noun The ability to speak.
  4. noun A manner of speaking. “He has a good utterance.”
  5. noun (obsolete) A sale made by offering to the public.
  6. noun (obsolete) An act of putting in circulation. “the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes”
  7. noun (literary, archaic) The utmost extremity, especially of a fight; bodily harm or death.

Synonyms

uttering outrance vocalization

Etymology

From Middle English utteraunce, outeraunce; equivalent to utter + -ance.

From Middle English outraunce, utteraunce, from Old French outrance (see outrance).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of uttering. Specifically: -- (a) Sale by offering to the public. [Obs.] Bacon.
  2. noun Power or style of speaking; as, a good utterance.
  3. noun The last extremity; the end; death; outrance. [Obs.]

Etymology [F. outrance. See Outrance.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “utterance” (best matches first).

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