Phonetics

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Pronunciation

• vowels
• consonants
• diphthongs
• Other symbols

vowels

long vowels short vowels

sheep ship head
farm hat above
coo foot mother (US)
horse sock (UK)
bird cup

consonants

voiced voiceless
pen
town
cat
fish
think
say
she
cheese
 book
day
give
very
the
zoo
vision
jump
look
run
yes
we
moon
name
sing

diphthongs

day
eye
boy
mouth
nose (UK)
nose (US)
ear (UK)
hair (UK)
pure (UK)

Other symbols

hand

restaurant

happy

butter (US)
 influenza

little

can be pronounced either etc.

label

r
linking r is pronounced only before a vowel in British English:

four four apples

main stress
expectation

secondary stress
retell

. syllable division
system