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.

bullpen

noun

Forms bullpens

noun An enclosed area used to hold bulls. “Magnus and Big Dick are over in the bullpen, ready for tonight's rodeo.”
noun (baseball) An enclosed area for pitchers to warm up in during a game. “After that hit, there is activity in the bullpen.”
noun (baseball) The relief pitchers of a team collectively. “Their bullpen is worn out after yesterday's doubleheader where both games went 12 innings.”
noun (figurative) A place for someone or something to get ready. “If this team of consultants fails, I have another warming up in the bullpen.”
noun An open seating arrangement where project teams can communicate openly with minimal effort. “We have our sales team in a bullpen setup to keep their energy flowing.”
noun (US, military slang) A military prison or its enclosing stockade.

Synonyms

From bull + pen.

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