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say it: HER-is
harris is a noun meaning "United States author who wrote the stories about Uncle Remus (1848-1908)". It is pronounced /ˈhɛɹɪs/ — HER-is. It carries 6 recorded senses.
United States author who wrote the stories about Uncle Remus (1848-1908)
United States linguist (born in Ukraine) who developed mathematical linguistics and interpreted speech and writing in a social context (1909-1992)
United States diplomat who was instrumental in opening Japan to foreign trade (1804-1878)
Irish writer noted for his sexually explicit but unreliable autobiography (1856-1931)
British marshal of the Royal Air Force; during World War II he directed mass bombing raids against German cities that resulted in heavy civilian casualties (1892-1984)
publisher of the first newspaper printed in America (1673-1713)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for harris come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.