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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writer

UK /ˈɹaɪ.tə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈɹaɪ.təɹ/ noun, proper noun

Forms writers

  1. noun A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer". “Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!”
  2. noun Anything that writes or produces output.
  3. noun A machine or tool used for writing, often by chording keys on a specialized keyboard (e.g. braillewriter, microwriter, stenograph).
  4. noun (finance) The seller of an option.
  5. noun (historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
  6. noun (Scotland) An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.
  7. noun (US) A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.
  8. noun (slang) A graffiti artist.
  9. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation.

Synonyms

ship writer ship's writer author penman

Etymology

From Middle English writer, writere, from Old English wrītere (“draughtsman; painter; writer; scribe; copyist”) and ġewritere (“writer; composer”), equivalent to write + -er and writ + -er. Cognate with Icelandic ritari (“clerk, secretary”), Faroese ritari (“clerk, secretary”).

From writer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
  2. noun One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.

Etymology [AS. writere.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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