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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variant

UK /ˈvɛəɹi.ənt/ · US /ˈvæɹi.ənt/ adjective, noun

Forms variants variaunt

  1. adjective Showing variety, diverse.
  2. adjective Showing deviation or disagreement.
  3. adjective (obsolete) Variable.
  4. adjective (programming) Covariant and/or contravariant.
  5. noun Something that is slightly different from a type or norm. “All breeds of dog are variants of the species “Canis lupus familiaris”.”
  6. noun (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus).
  7. noun (programming) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
  8. noun (linguistics, lexicography) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function. “The word "kerosine" is a variant of “kerosene”.”

Synonyms

discrepancy variance form strain var. random variable variate stochastic variable chance variable version variation edition

Etymology

From Old French variant, from Latin variāns, the present active participle of variō (“to change”). First attested in c. 1380.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Varying in from, character, or the like; variable; different; diverse.
  2. adjective Changeable; changing; fickle. [Obs.]
  3. noun Something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a variant of a story or a word.

Etymology [L. varians, p. pr. of variare to change: cf. F. variant. See Vary.]

Etymology [Cf. F. variante.]

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