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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handler

UK /ˈhænd.lə/ · US /ˈhænd.lɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms handlers

  1. noun (literally) One who handles something (especially manually) or someone. “The handler of a weapon gets a symbolic sensation of deadly power.”
  2. noun A controller, trainer, someone who handles a specified thing, animal or person (especially a prizefighter). “The spy's handler told him to approach the subject by posing as a dog handler.”
  3. noun An advisor or manager providing guidance to a person occupying public office or a prominent position. “The governor received guidance on how to best disseminate key information to the public from her handler.”
  4. noun (programming) A subroutine that handles a particular situation such as an event or exception.
  5. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

animal trainer coach manager

Etymology

From Middle English handler, handiller, equivalent to handle + -er.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “handler”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details