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English Alphabet

Phonetics

It is necessary to use a special alphabet to show the pronunciation of English words, because the ordinary English alphabet does not have enough letters to represent all the sounds of the language. The following list contains all the letters of the phonetic alphabet used in this project, with examples of the words in which the sounds they refer to are found.

When you open an English dictionary you will find a sign after the word just before the word, these signs are called phonetic. Phonetics will help you how to pronounce a word correctly. It gives the correct pronunciation of words in British and American English. Acoustics is based on volume.

Learning the basics of phonics is very simple. In the first or second page of each vocabulary is an index of phonetics. If you know the game, this is more than enough to pronounce words correctly.

English Phonetics - Reference Table

Vowels

IPA Phonetic Symbol	Example
	tree, sea, receive, women, believe, we, people
	bit, symbol, recall, business
	cat, apple, compact
	car, far, garage, heart
	sort, ball, ought, awful, board, floor, audacity, saw
	put, foot, could, butcher, woman
	fool, rule, shoes, true, crew, move, through
	up, other, but, couple, blood, love
	her, first, turn, search
	until, about, alias
	bed, effort, head, said, friend
	rock, impossible, body, cough, knowledge

Diphthongs

IPA Phonetic Symbol	Example

	tray, eight, make, sail, say, great, ace
	sky, I, bye, buy, by, guide, flight, rye, die, choir ['kwair]
	joy, coin, oyster
-r (amer.)	fear, beer, here
-r (amer.)	hair, care, there, hare
-r (amer.)	tour, poor
	trousers, cow, hour, our
	joke, coat, own, go, though, sew, toe

Consonants

IPA Phonetic Symbol	Example

	parking, gallop, open
	board, tab, abandon
	trunk, request, receipt
	add, ad, diligent
	kodak, cord, accomplish, school, ache, conqueror, exchange (x = k+s)
	grace, agree, auxiliary (x = g+z)
	chance, achieve, catch, mutual
	jungle, judge, logic, procedure
	fool, atmosphere, enough
	vocal, give
	thanks, ethic
	there, other
	sunday, citizen, east, scissors, psychology
	zebra, cosmonaut, scissors, resign, xenon
	shine, sure, action, special, issue, conscience, anxious
	visual, casual, usual, garage,
	head, uphill
	mother, lamb
	note, intrusion, knowledge, pneumatic
	sing, sink
	laughter, illegal
	random, orange; (amer.) order
	yet, yesterday, you, utility; (u = j + u)
	what, windows, quest, one (o = w + )