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.

slurry

/ˈslʌ.ɹi/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms slurries slurrying slurried slurrier slurriest

noun Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
noun (mining) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
noun (agriculture) A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc.
noun (cooking) A thickener.
verb To make a slurry (of some material).
verb To apply a slurry (to). “Next week we will be slurrying the parking lot.”
adjective Slurred, tending to slur. “He spoke with a slurry voice.”

Etymology

Unclear; probably related to Middle English sloor (“thin or fluid mud”); compare slur. From mid-15th c.

From slur (“run together; articulate poorly”) + -y.

Sources: Wiktionary — from the Wiktionary entry “slurry”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details