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.

cork up

verb

Forms corks up corking up corked up

verb (transitive) To enclose in a bottle sealed with a cork. “Here's a bottle to cork that up in.”
verb (transitive) To block with a cork or something similar. “Cork up that pipe.”
verb (usually imperative, slang, intransitive) Shut up; be quiet. “Hey! Cork up in there!”
verb (transitive) To make (someone) be quiet. “You gotta cork him up.”
verb (transitive, figurative) To suppress an emotion or impulse. “He's been corking that anger up for years.”
verb (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To put cork in a baseball bat; to use a baseball bat with cork in it. “I'm sure's been corking up.”

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