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.

jetsam

/ˈd͡ʒɛt.səm/ noun

Forms jetsams

noun Items thrown overboard from a ship or boat in distress in order to lighten its load. “There she was, floating amongst the jetsam, like so much debris.”
noun (by extension) Discarded or leftover odds and ends. “They were the jetsam of the dot-com bust.”

Synonyms

From Middle English jetteson, from Anglo-Norman getteson. Doublet of jettison.

noun Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; --distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy.
noun Jettison. See Jettison, 1.

Etymology [F. jeter to throw: cf. OF. getaison a throwing. Cf. Flotsam, Jettison.]

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