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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whereas

UK /wɛəɹˈaz/ · US /(h)wɛɹˈæz/ adverb, conjunction, noun

Forms whereases

  1. adverb (obsolete) Where (that).
  2. conjunction In contrast; whilst on the contrary; although. “He came first in the race, whereas his brother came last.”
  3. conjunction (chiefly law) It being the fact that; inasmuch as. (Often used to begin recitals; sometimes emboldened or emphasized as a signifier.)
  4. noun A clause, as in legal documents, stating whereas.

Etymology

From where + as (“that”); first attested in the meaning of "where" in the 14th century. Compare thereas.

The ä emphasizes that the word is where + as.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adverb At which place; where. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. conjunction Considering that; it being the case that; since; --used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow.
  3. conjunction When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that; although; --implying opposition to something that precedes; or implying recognition of facts, sometimes followed by a different statement, and sometimes by inferences or something consequent.

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

Sanskrit

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

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