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.

corkwood

noun

Forms corkwoods

noun Annona glabra, a plant found in the West Indies.
noun Commiphora angolensis or sand corkwood, a shrub species growing mainly in Angola and Namibia.
noun Duboisia spp., found in Australia.
noun Endiandra sieberi, a corkwood from Australia in the laurel family.
noun Caldcluvia paniculosa, a soft barked corkwood from Australia in the coachwood family.
noun Entelea arborescens, a species found in New Zealand.
noun Erythrina vespertilio (grey corkwood), a species from Australia.
noun Hakea suberea, a species found in Australia.

Synonyms

From cork + wood.

noun The wood of the cork oak. [Obs.]
noun Any one of several trees or shrubs having light or corky wood; esp.: (a) In the United States, the tree Leitneria floridana.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “corkwood”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details