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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assets

/ˈæsɛts/ noun

Also a form of asset

Forms asset

  1. noun (finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts. “His assets are much greater than his liabilities.”
  2. noun (accounting) The left side of a balance sheet. “The assets must equal liabilities, otherwise there is an error in your balance sheet.”
  3. noun (law) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
  4. noun Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts.
  5. noun (slang, vulgar, usually in the plural) Private parts; a woman's breasts or buttocks, or a man's genitalia.

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman asetz, from Old French assez (“enough”). Originally singular, with the meaning "enough to meet liabilities"; later reanalyzed as a plural form.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun (a) Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; --called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend. Story. Blackstone.
  2. noun The entire property of all sorts, belonging to a person, a corporation, or an estate; as, the assets of a merchant or a trading association; --opposed to liabilities.

Etymology [OF. asez enough, F. assez, fr. L. ad + satis, akin to Gr. saps full. Cf. Assai, Satisfy.]

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