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John Wells' Lexical Sets: Keyword Genam Example Words and Orthography
John Wells' Lexical Sets: Keyword Genam Example Words and Orthography
John Wells' Lexical Sets: Keyword Genam Example Words and Orthography
Keyword GenAm Example words and
orthography
KIT ɪ ship, rip, spirit, gym,
system
DRESS ɛ step, ebb, hem, terror,
dead, meant, feather
TRAP æ bad, cab, ham, arrow,
LOT a father, stop, rob, swan
STRUT ʌ cub, rub, hum, come, love,
Monday, cover, month (/ʌ/
spelled with [o] often
before /v/, /n/, and /θ/),
touch, couple
FOOT ʊ full, look, could, bosom,
BATH æ staff, clasp, dance, plaid
CLOTH, ɔ cough, long, laurel, origin,
THOUGHT broad, talk, always, small,
raw, lawn
FLEECE i seed, key, seize, even, we,
read, clean, brief, belief,
gasoline, magazine