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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roster

UK /ˈɹɒs.tə/ · US /ˈɹɔ.stɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms rosters rostering rostered

  1. noun A list of individuals or groups, usually for an organization of some kind such as military officers and enlisted personnel enrolled in a particular unit; a muster roll; a sports team, with the names of players who are eligible to be placed in the lineup for a particular game; or a list of students officially enrolled in a school or class. “I'm number 12 on the roster for tonight's game.”
  2. noun A list of the jobs to be performed by members of an organization and often with the date and time that they are expected to perform them. “The secretary has produced a new cleaning roster for the Church over the remainder of the year.”
  3. noun A schedule or timetable setting out shift times and dates for each employee of a business.
  4. noun (mathematics) A bracketed list that shows the elements of a set.
  5. verb (transitive) To place the name of (a person) on a roster. “I have rostered you for cleaning duties on the first Monday of each month.”
  6. verb (transitive, mathematics) To show the elements of a set by listing them inside brackets.
  7. proper noun A surname

Synonyms

roll

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch rooster (“gridiron, table, list”), from Middle Dutch roosten (“to roast”). More at roast.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.

Etymology [Perhaps a corruption of register; or cf. roll.]

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