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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attorney

UK /əˈtɜːni/ · US /əˈtɜɹni/ noun, verb

Forms attorneys attorneying attorneyed attornies actorney

  1. noun (US) A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.
  2. noun (law) An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf in accordance with that person's instructions.
  3. noun (UK, dated, 19th century and earlier) One such who practised in the courts of the common law.
  4. noun (UK, 20th century and later, rare, usually derogatory) A solicitor.
  5. noun (Philippines, sometimes US) An honorific given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do other jobs. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Atty.
  6. noun An attorney tree (Clusia spp.)
  7. noun A prosecutor.
  8. verb (intransitive, rare) To work as a legal attorney.
  9. verb (transitive, rare) To provide with a legal attorney.

Synonyms

lawyer barrister solicitor counsel counselor advocate[Appendix:Glossary abogado advocate avocat latitat lawman legal representative limb of the law man of law agent proxy representative

Etymology

From Middle English attourne, from Old French atorné, past participle of atorner, atourner, aturner (“to attorn”), in the sense of "one appointed or constituted".

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A substitute; a proxy; an agent. [Obs.]
  2. noun (a) One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.
  3. verb To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy. [Obs.] Shak.

Etymology [OE. aturneye, OF. atorné, p. p. of atorner: cf. LL. atturnatus, attornatus, fr. attornare. See Attorn.]

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