Letter Combinations & Pronunciations EA eat, sea, read, meat, beat, bead, dear, fear, read [i] EW new,

knew, screw, jewel, few [u] OU mouse, house, cloud, found, pound, loud, shout [aw]

Exceptions
break, great, wear, bear, pear [e] threat, sweat, read [] sew [o]

tough [] cough [] dough, though, your [o] through, you [u] would, could, should [] door, poor [o] good [] does [] own, bow, tow, show, know [o] work, word []

OO moon, zoo, baboon, goose, choose, food [u] OE goes, potatoes, tomatoes, heroes [o] OW cow, town, clown, wow, how [aw] OR fork, fort, stork, horse, cork, sword [o] AR car, card, farm, warm, barn [a] AI rain, train, snail, pain, chain [e] AY day, play, hay, say, may, stay [e] AT bat, cat, hat, that, fat, mat, rat []

war, ward [o] again [] says [] what []

American English Vowels

Part of Tongue Front High Tongu e Mid Height beat [bit] bit [bt] Central Back boot [but] book [bk] Diphthongs bow [baw] boy [bj] buy [baj]

bait boat [bot] but [bt] [bet] bought [bt] sofa [sof] bet [bt] bat [bt] bot [bat]

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