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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scrutiny

UK /ˈskɹuː.tɪ.ni/ · US /ˈskɹu.tɪ.ni/ noun, verb

Forms scrutinies scrutinying scrutinied

  1. noun Intense study of someone or something.
  2. noun Thorough inspection of a situation or a case. “come under scrutiny”
  3. noun (Christianity) An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
  4. noun A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.
  5. noun An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
  6. verb (obsolete, rare) To scrutinize.

Synonyms

examination exploration going-over inquiry inspection investigation perusal probe scan study survey

Etymology

From Middle English scrutiny, from Medieval Latin scrūtinium (“a search, an inquiry”), from Vulgar Latin scrūtor (“to search or examine thoroughly”), from Late Latin scrūta (“rubbish, broken trash”), from an extension of Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.
  2. noun An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
  3. verb To scrutinize. [Obs.]

Etymology [L. scrutinium, fr. scrutari to search carefuly, originally, to search even to the rags, fr. scruta trash, trumpery; perhaps akin to E. shred: cf. AS. scrudnian to make scrutiny.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “scrutiny” (best matches first).