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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audit

/ˈɔːdɪt/ noun, verb

Forms audits auditing audited

  1. noun A judicial examination.
  2. noun An examination in general.
  3. noun An independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the adequacy of system controls, to ensure compliance with established policies and operational procedures, and to recommend necessary changes in controls, policies, or procedures “National Assembly audit”
  4. noun The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.
  5. noun (Scientology) Spiritual counseling, which forms the core of Dianetics.
  6. noun (obsolete) A general receptacle or receiver.
  7. noun (obsolete) An audience; a hearing.
  8. verb (transitive) To examine and adjust (e.g. an account). “to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court”
  9. verb (finance, business, transitive) To conduct an independent review and examination of system records and activities in order to test the adequacy and effectiveness of data security and data integrity procedures, to ensure compliance with established policy and operational procedures, and to recommend any necessary changes
  10. verb (Scientology, transitive) To counsel spiritually.
  11. verb (transitive) To attend an academic class without the opportunity to receive academic credit.

Synonyms

audited account scrutinize scrutinise inspect

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin audītus, from audiō (“to hear”). The sense of examine is because examinations were originally presented orally, and the examiner listened.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An audience; a hearing. [Obs.]
  2. noun An examination in general; a judicial examination.
  3. verb To examine and adjust, as an account or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court.
  4. verb To settle or adjust an account.

Etymology [L. auditus a hearing, fr. audire. See Audible, a.]

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