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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liaison

/liˈeɪˌzɒ̃/ noun, verb

Forms liaisons liaisoning liaisoned

  1. noun (cooking) A thickening for sauces, typically based on egg yolks.
  2. noun Communication between two parties or groups.
  3. noun Cooperation, working together.
  4. noun (military) A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
  5. noun Any person who relays information between two groups or organizations. “As a community liaison, I work to make sure the general public knows about our organization's work.”
  6. noun A tryst; a romantic meeting.
  7. noun (figuratively) An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
  8. noun (phonology) Fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs.
  9. verb (proscribed) Synonym of liaise.

Synonyms

go-between mediator liaise affair affaire intimacy involvement amour link contact inter-group communication

Etymology

Borrowed from French liaison (“binding”), from Latin ligātiō (stem ligātiōn-; whence the English doublet ligation), derived from ligō (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.

Etymology [F., fr. L. ligatio, fr. ligare to bind. See Ligature, and cf. Ligation.]

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