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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commons

UK /ˈkɒmənz/ · US /ˈkɑmənz/ noun, proper noun

Also a form of common

Forms the Commons

  1. noun (usually singular in construction) A public area, especially a dining hall, at a college or university; a similar shared space elsewhere.
  2. noun (usually singular in construction) A common (common land); especially, a central section of (usually an older) town, designated as a shared area. “The Renaissance festival started with the "peasants" meeting in the commons.”
  3. noun (figuratively) The mutual good of all; the abstract concept of resources shared by more than one, for example air, water, information. “"The tragedy of the commons" is that none wish to make sacrifices of their or their family's interests for the common good.”
  4. noun The common people collectively, the third estate, the people not belonging to the nobility or clergy.
  5. noun (chiefly historical) The free burghers/bourgeoisie of a given town, taken collectively.
  6. noun (euphemistic, obsolete) An outhouse.
  7. noun (obsolete, UK, Oxford University) Food served at a fixed rate from the college buttery, distinguished from battels.
  8. noun Food in general; rations. “short commons”
  9. proper noun (UK politics, Canadian politics) The House of Commons, part of the parliament under the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

res communis commoners common house House of Commons backhouse backside bog boggard boghouse carsey chamber foreign Cousin John craphouse danna draught draught-house dunnekin dunny earth closet foreign park common green common land commonalty commonality third estate

Etymology

Ellipsis of House of Commons.

* English and Irish (Mayo Tipperary and Galway): variant of Cummings.
* English: variant of Common with post-medieval excrescent -s.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled chasses or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. [Eng.]
  2. noun The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities.

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