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.

snooker

UK /ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈsnʊkɚ/ noun, verb

Forms snookers snookering snookered

noun A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
noun (snooker, pool) The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the player cannot directly hit a legal ball with it. “She put her opponent in a snooker.”
verb (intransitive) To play the game of snooker.
verb (transitive) To fool or bamboozle.
verb (ambitransitive, snooker, pool) To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
verb (transitive, by extension) To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
verb (transitive) To cause to become inebriated.

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