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.

payroll

UK /ˈpeɪˌɹəʊl/ · US /ˈpeɪˌɹoʊl/ noun, verb

Forms payrolls payrolling payrolled pay roll

noun A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
noun The total sum of money paid to employees.
noun (accounting) The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.
noun (euphemistic) Bribes paid to people.
verb (transitive) To place on a payroll (noun sense 1).

Synonyms

From pay + roll.

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