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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parliamentarian

UK /ˌpɑːləmənˈtɛəɹiən/ · US /ˌpɑɹləmənˈtɛɹiən/ noun, adjective

Forms parliamentarians

  1. noun (Commonwealth) A member of a parliament, congress or an elected national legislative body of another name.
  2. noun A person well-versed in parliamentary procedure.
  3. noun (US) An officer in most legislative bodies charged with being well-versed in the parliamentary rules of that legislative house, and whose rulings are taken as authoritative, to be appealed only to the whole of the house itself under special rules.
  4. adjective Of or relating to a parliament; favouring the establishment of a parliament. “a parliamentarian democracy; the parliamentarian movement”
  5. adjective (historical) Of or relating to the Parliamentarians (supporters of the parliament during the English Civil War (1642–1651)).
  6. noun (historical) A supporter of the English Parliament during the English Civil War.

Synonyms

member of parliament MP deputy congressman parliamentary Roundhead

Etymology

From Parliament + -arian.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to Parliament. Wood.
  2. noun One who adhered to the Parliament, in opposition to King Charles I. Walpole.
  3. noun One versed in the rules and usages of Parliament or similar deliberative assemblies; as, an accomplished parliamentarian.

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