Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

workhorse

UK /ˈwɜːkˌhɔːs/ · US /ˈwɝkˌhoɹs/ noun

Forms workhorses work horse

noun A horse used primarily for manual labor; a draft/draught horse.
noun (by extension, figurative) A person or piece of equipment that performs a lot of work, especially one heavily relied upon to perform consistently and regularly. “Those old machines are not very glamorous, but even 20 years after their introduction, they are still the workhorses of the industry.”

Synonyms

From Middle English werkehorse, equivalent to work + horse.

Sources: Wiktionary — from the Wiktionary entry “workhorse”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details