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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panhandle

/ˈpænˌhæn.dəl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms panhandles panhandling panhandled the Panhandle

  1. noun The handle of a pan.
  2. noun (cartography, US) An area within a nation or subnational division that appears to stick out or project when viewed on a map; an especially elongated salient.
  3. noun (aviation) The handle that activates an ejector seat.
  4. verb (intransitive, US) To beg for money, especially with a container in hand for receiving loose change, especially on the street, and particularly, as a homeless or vagrant person.
  5. verb (transitive, figuratively, uncommon) To elicit; to attempt to obtain or provoke a certain response or answer.
  6. proper noun A city, the county seat of Carson County, Texas, United States.
  7. proper noun The Alaskan Panhandle.

Etymology

From pan + handle.

Probable back-formation from panhandler.

From its central location in the Texas Panhandle.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The handle of a pan; hence, fig., any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; as, the panhandle of West Virginia, Texas, or Idaho.
  2. noun West Virginia; --a nickname.

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