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.

sixties

noun, adjective

Also a form of sixty

Forms 'sixties

noun The decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69. “She retired at some point in her sixties, I don't recall exactly when.”
noun (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 60 and 69 Fahrenheit. “Highs in the mid sixties.”
adjective From or evoking the 61st through 70th years of a century (chiefly the 1960s). “She coughed as she exhaled. Sixties weed had been nowhere near this strong.”
noun The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc. (but especially the 1960s)
noun (US) A period in American history centered around the counterculture movement of the late 1960s.

Synonyms

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “sixties”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details