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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missive

/ˈmɪsɪv/ noun, adjective

Forms missives

  1. noun (formal) A written message; a letter, note or memo.
  2. noun (in the plural, Scots law) Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.
  3. noun (obsolete) One who is sent; a messenger.
  4. adjective Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.
  5. adjective (obsolete) Serving as a missile; intended to be thrown.

Synonyms

letter

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin missīvus, from mittō (“to send”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent; as, a letter missive. Ayliffe.
  2. adjective Missile. "The missive weapons fly." Dryden. Letters missive, letters conveying the permission, comand, or advice of a superior authority, as a sovereign. They are addressed and sent to some certain person or persons, and are distinguished from letters patent, which are addressed to the public.
  3. noun That which is sent; a writing containing a message.
  4. noun One who is sent; a messenger. [Obs.] Shak.

Etymology [See Missive, n.]

Etymology [F. lettre missive. See Mission, n.]

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