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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harris

/ˈhæɹɪs/ noun, proper noun

Forms Harrises

  1. noun (UK, slang) A dried preparation of the flowering tops or other parts of the cannabis plant used as a psychotropic drug.
  2. proper noun (countable) An English and Welsh surname originating as a patronymic.
  3. proper noun (countable) A male given name.
  4. proper noun A township in Lake Timiskaming, Timiskaming district, Northeastern Ontario, Northern Ontario, Ontario, Canada.
  5. proper noun A village in the Rural Municipality of Harris, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  6. proper noun A rural municipality of Saskatchewan, Canada.
  7. proper noun An unincorporated community in North Township, Marshall County, Indiana.
  8. proper noun A minor city in Osceola County, Iowa.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in Anderson County, Kansas.
  10. proper noun The southern and more mountainous part of Lewis and Harris, an island in the Outer Hebrides and Western Isles council area, Scotland.

Synonyms

Joel Harris Joel Chandler Harris Zellig Harris Zellig Sabbatai Harris Townsend Harris Frank Harris James Thomas Harris Bomber Harris Sir Arthur Travers Harris Benjamin Harris

Etymology

* (rhyming slang): Ellipsis of harris tweed (“weed, marijuana”); from Harris tweed.

From Harry + -s (“patronymic suffix”). From Harry, a male given name derived from a Middle English pronunciation of Old French Henri.

Uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse hérað (“hundred (administrative district)”), or from Old Norse hærri (“higher”), referring to the high hills on the island, especially compared to Lewis.

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