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.

belting

/ˈbɛltɪŋ/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Also a form of belt

Forms beltings

adjective (Northern English dialect) Very good; exceptional (can also be used adverbially) “You'll have a belting time!”
noun A beating with a belt.
noun (figuratively) A thorough defeat; a thrashing.
noun A system of beltwork, as in a conveyor or other mechanical device.
noun The material from which belts for machinery are made.
noun (music, uncountable) The act of singing in chest voice above one's vocal break in a higher range typically sung in head voice. “I could hear you perfectly all the way in the back of the audience! I wish my belting were as good as yours.”
proper noun A surname from German.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Belting.

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