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.

ring up

verb

Forms rings up ringing up rang up rung up

verb (transitive, idiomatic) To telephone; to call someone on the telephone.
verb (transitive) To enter (a payment) into a cash register, or till in a shop, or record a credit- or debit-card payment. “Just ring up these items first. You can ring up those separately.”
verb (transitive) To record the payment of. “I'll take these. You can ring me up.”
verb (transitive) To make an adverse official decision concerning (a person).
verb To rouse by the ringing of a bell.
verb (baseball) To strikeout a batter and thereby send him or her back to the dugout.

Synonyms

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