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.

forestry

/ˈfɒɹ.ɪst.ɹi/ noun

Forms forestries

noun (uncountable) The science of planting and growing trees in forests. “She studied forestry and environmental management.”
noun (uncountable) The art and practice of planting and growing trees in forests.
noun (uncountable) The art and practice of cultivating, exploiting and renewing forests for commercial purposes. “sustainable forestry”
noun (uncountable) Commercial tree farming.
noun (countable) A tree farm.
noun (countable) A forest-covered area.

Synonyms

From Middle English *forestrie, *forsterie (suggested by Middle English forster, forester (“forester”)), from Old French foresterie, from forest.

Etymology [Cf. OF. foresterie.]

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