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.

guts

/ɡʌts/ noun, verb

Also a form of gut

Forms gutses gutsing gutsed

noun The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
noun (by extension, informal) Courage; determination. “It must have taken some guts to speak in front of that audience.”
noun (informal) Content, substance. “His speech had no guts in it.”
noun (informal) The essential, core parts. “He knew all about the guts of the business: how things actually get done.”
noun (informal) One's innermost feelings. “If you need someone to spill your guts out to, I'm here.”
noun (Australia, New Zealand) The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates; the centre.
noun (Australian rules football, informal) The center of the field.
verb (Australia, informal) To eat greedily.
verb (informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out). “He gutsed out a 6-1 win.”

Synonyms

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