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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office

UK /ˈɒf.ɪs/ · US /ˈɔ.fɪs/ noun, verb

Forms offices officing officed

  1. noun (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:
  2. noun (Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
  3. noun (Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
  4. noun (Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist.
  5. noun (Catholicism) The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons. “In the Latin rite, all bishops, priests, and transitional deacons are obliged to recite the Divine Office daily.”
  6. noun (Protestantism) Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
  7. noun (Christianity) Last rites.
  8. noun (Christianity, obsolete) Mass, (particularly) the introit sung at its beginning.
  9. verb To provide (someone) with an office.
  10. verb (intransitive) To have an office.

Synonyms

Divine Office breviary Liturgy of the Hours canonical hours department ministry bureau workplace workstead practice bathroom service divine service religious service liturgy doctor's office business office agency federal agency government agency authority function part role power office staff position post berth spot

Etymology

From Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”), from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y”, forming actions), from op- (“work”) + -i- (connective) + -fex (combining form of faciō (“to do, to make”)).
In the religious sense, Displaced native Old English hād.
The computing sense is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices.
  2. noun A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office.
  3. verb To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge. [Obs.]

Etymology [F., fr. L. officium, for opificium; ops ability, wealth, holp + facere to do or make. See Opulent, Fact.]

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

Sanskrit

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