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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commercialize

UK /kəˈmɜːʃəˌlaɪz/ · US /kəˈmɚʃəˌlaɪz/ verb

Also a form of commercialise

Forms commercializes commercializing commercialized commercialise

  1. verb (transitive) To bring into commerce from an earlier condition (such as idea alone, experimental prototypes alone, or one-off custom builds only). “the work required not only to invent a device but also to commercialize it”
  2. verb (transitive) To apply business methodology to something in order to profit (such as introducing salability to a resource that comes from, or rightfully belongs to, the commons). “finding the right balance in paying for water infrastructure (treatment plants and pipe networks) but not commercializing water to the point of excluding low-income people from adequate access to a basic necessity”
  3. verb (transitive) To exploit something for maximum financial gain, sometimes by sacrificing quality. “a market district formerly served mainly by artisans but increasingly commercialized for mass tourism”

Synonyms

productize commercialise market

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “commercialize”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details