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.

romanize

UK /ˈɹəʊ.mə.naɪz/ · US /ˈɹoʊ.məˌnaɪz/ verb

Also a form of romanise

Forms romanizes romanizing romanized romanise

verb (transitive) To put letters or words written in another writing system into the Latin (Roman) alphabet. “The author romanizes Chinese names using the Wade–Giles system rather than the Pinyin system.”
verb (transitive, historical, usually capitalized) To bring under the authority or influence of Rome.
verb (ambitransitive, usually capitalized) To make or become Roman in character or style.
verb (ambitransitive, usually capitalized) To make or become Roman Catholic in religion (by conversion), character or style.
verb (transitive, obsolete) To fill with Latin words or idioms.
verb (transitive) To Romanianize.

Synonyms

From Roman(ian) + -ize.

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