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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directory

/dɪˈɹɛktəɹi/ noun, adjective

Forms directories

  1. noun A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification. “look up an address in the directory”
  2. noun (computing) A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device.
  3. noun (computing) A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other directories may be stored. The files and subdirectories in a directory are usually related.
  4. noun (politics) A form of government with a collegial executive whose members jointly exercise power; the executive of such a government.
  5. adjective Containing directions; instructing; directorial.

Synonyms

folder directorate

Etymology

From Middle English directorie, dyrectorye, from Medieval Latin dīrēctōrium. By surface analysis, direct + -ory. Doublet of directorium. The political sense is a semantic loan from French directoire.

From Middle English directorye, from Latin dīrēctōrius. By surface analysis, direct + -ory.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
  2. noun A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.
  3. noun A book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.

Etymology [L. directorius.]

Etymology [Cf. F. directoire.]

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