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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exchequer

/ɛksˈt͡ʃɛ.kɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms exchequers exchequering exchequered exchecker

  1. noun An office of revenue taxation; a treasury.
  2. noun An available fund of money, especially one for a specific purpose.
  3. verb (transitive) To proceed against (a person) in the Court of Exchequer.
  4. proper noun (UK) The government department that collects and manages revenue.

Synonyms

Treasury

Etymology

From Middle English escheker, from Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”), from Medieval Latin scaccarium. This is because the cloth on which the treasurer counted money was chequered like a chessboard.

Proprialization of exchequer.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One of the superior courts of law; --so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table. [Eng.]
  2. noun The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low. Barons of the exchequer. See under Baron.
  3. verb To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.

Etymology [OE. escheker, OF. eichekier, fr. LL. scaccarium. See Checker, Chess, Check.]

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