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.

laundry

/ˈlɔːn.dɹi/ noun

Forms laundries

noun A laundering; a washing. “In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.”
noun A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
noun That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered. “You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.”
noun (slang, American football) A penalty flag.
noun A business whose primary purpose is to conceal the origins of money received illegally.

Synonyms

From Middle English lavendrie, from Old French lavanderie, from Latin lavandaria. See launder.

Etymology [OE. lavendrie, OF. lavanderie. See Launder.]

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