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.

fauces

/fɔː.siːz/ noun

Also a form of faux

Forms faux

noun (anatomy) The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue.
noun (botany) The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.
noun (zoology) That portion of the interior of a spiral shell which can be seen by looking into the aperture.

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin faucēs (“the upper part of a throat”).

noun The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; --called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.
noun The throat of a calyx, corolla, etc.

Etymology [L.]

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