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.

redshank

noun

Forms redshanks red shank

noun Any of two species of Old World wading bird in the genus Tringa that have long red legs.
noun Any member of the species Ceratodon purpureus of moss.
noun Lady's thumb or redleg (Persicaria maculosa), an herb in the buckwheat family.
noun (obsolete, derogatory) A bare-legged person; one of the Scottish Highlanders, who wore kilts.

Synonyms

From red + shank.

noun (a) A common Old World limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee.
noun A bare-legged person; --a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs. Spenser.

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