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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docket

UK /ˈdɒk.ɪt/ · US /ˈdɑ.kɪt/ noun, verb

Forms dockets docketing docketed docquet

  1. noun (obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.
  2. noun (law) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
  3. noun (law) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
  4. noun An agenda of things to be done.
  5. noun A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
  6. noun (Australia) A receipt.
  7. verb (transitive) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
  8. verb (transitive) To label a parcel, etc. “to docket goods”
  9. verb (transitive) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize. “to docket letters and papers”
  10. verb (transitive) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book. “judgments regularly docketed”

Synonyms

agenda schedule

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps a diminutive of dock.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
  2. noun A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label.
  3. verb To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers. Chesterfield.
  4. verb (a) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.

Etymology [Dock to cut off + dim. suffix -et.]

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