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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chancellor

UK /ˈtʃɑːnsələ/ · US /ˈt͡ʃænsələ/ noun, proper noun

Forms chancellors chanceler chanceller chancellour chancelor chancelour chaunceler chaunceller chauncellor chauncellour chauncelor chauncelour

  1. noun A senior secretary or official with administrative or legal duties, sometimes in charge of some area of government such as finance or justice. “Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster”
  2. noun The head of the government in some German-speaking countries. “the Austrian Chancellor”
  3. noun (Christianity) A senior record keeper of a cathedral; a senior legal officer for a bishop or diocese in charge of hearing cases involving ecclesiastical law.
  4. noun (education) The head of a university, sometimes purely ceremonial.
  5. noun (Scots law) The foreman of a jury.
  6. noun (US, law) The chief judge of a court of chancery (that is, one exercising equity jurisdiction).
  7. noun (chess) A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the rook and the knight.
  8. noun An honorific for the head of state in various German-speaking states.
  9. proper noun A surname.
  10. proper noun A hamlet in Wheatland County, Alberta, Canada, named after the Chancellor of Germany by settlers.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Geneva County, Alabama.
  12. proper noun A town in Turner County, South Dakota, named for Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.

Synonyms

Reichskanzler Chancellor of the Exchequer premier prime minister

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman or Middle English chaunceler, chanceler, canceler (“chief administrative or executive officer of a ruler; chancellor, secretary; private secretary, scribe; Lord Chancellor of England; officer of the ruler's exchequer; a high administrative or executive officer (for example, a deputy or representative of a bishop; the head of a university)”), from Old French cancelier, chancelier (“chancellor”), from Late Latin cancellārius (“secretary; doorkeeper, porter; usher of a court of law stationed at the bars separating the public from the judges”), from Latin cancellī (plural of cancellus (“grate; bars, barrier; railings”), diminutive of cancer (“grid; barrier”), from Proto-Italic *karkros (“enclosure”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”)) + -ārius (suffix forming nouns denoting an agent of use). Equivalent to chancel + -or. Piecewise doublet of canceler.
The word was present as Late Old English canceler, cancheler, from Norman cancheler, but was displaced in the 13th century by the Old French and Anglo-Norman forms mentioned above.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.

Etymology [OE. canceler, chaunceler, F. chancelier, LL. cancellarius chancellor, a director of chancery, fr. L. cancelli lattices, crossbars, which surrounded the seat of judgment. See Chancel.]

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