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.

tipper

UK /ˈtɪpə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈtɪpɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms tippers

noun Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity. “The Americans are among the most generous tippers in the world.”
noun (slang) A small moustache.
noun (UK) A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck, tipper lorry, or dump truck.
noun A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
noun One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster.
noun (also in plural form) A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of livestock; a horn tipper.
noun A person who tips or discharges a load, or dumps waste (especially illegally with the latter).
noun A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well.
proper noun A surname from Middle English.

Synonyms

So called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.

Probably an occupational surname for a maker of arrowheads, from an agent derivative of Middle English tippe (“head, tip”).

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