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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sponsor

UK /ˈspɒn.səː/ · US /ˈspɑn.sɚ/ noun, verb

Forms sponsors sponsoring sponsored

  1. noun A person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another person or organization, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect. “He was my sponsor when I applied to join the club.”
  2. noun A senior member of a twelve step or similar program chosen to guide an initiate and form a partnership with them. “My narcotics anonymous sponsor became my best friend when I finally was able to do something about my meth problem.”
  3. noun A person or organization that pays all or part of the cost of an event, publication, media program, etc., usually in exchange for advertising. “And now a word from our sponsor.”
  4. verb (transitive) To be a sponsor for.

Synonyms

patron underwriter supporter presenter patronize patronise shop shop at buy at frequent

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin spōnsor (“a surety", in Late Latin "a sponsor in baptism”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety.
  2. noun One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother.

Etymology [L., from spondere, sponsum, to engage one's self. See Spose.]

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