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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commissary

UK /ˈkɒm.ɪ.s(ə)ɹi/ · US /ˈkɑ.mɪˌsɛɹ.i/ noun

Forms commissaries

  1. noun A store primarily serving persons in an institution, most often soldiers or prisoners.
  2. noun An account which a prisoner uses to buy provisions, or the balance of that account.
  3. noun A cafeteria at a television or movie studio.
  4. noun One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
  5. noun An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
  6. noun An officer who supplies provisions to an army.
  7. noun (Scots law) The judge in a commissary court.
  8. noun A higher-ranking police officer.

Etymology

From Late Latin commissarius, from commissus, past participle of committō (“to commit, entrust to”). Doublet of commissar.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.
  2. noun An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe.

Etymology [LL. commissarius, fr. L. commissus, p. p. of committere to commit, intrust to. See Commit.]

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