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English Alphabet and Phonetics Guide

The document provides the English alphabet with phonetic transcriptions for each letter. It then provides a key of common English vowel and consonant sounds with example words for each one. The key contains monophthongs, diphthongs, and consonants to describe the full range of sounds in English pronunciation.

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English Alphabet and Phonetics Guide

The document provides the English alphabet with phonetic transcriptions for each letter. It then provides a key of common English vowel and consonant sounds with example words for each one. The key contains monophthongs, diphthongs, and consonants to describe the full range of sounds in English pronunciation.

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The English Alphabet

A a [ei] M m [em] Y y [vai]


B b [bi:] N n [en] Z z [zed/ zi:]
C c [si:] O o [əu]
D d [di:] P p [pi:]
E e [i:] Q q [kju:]
F f [ef] R r [ɑ: (r)]
G g [ʤi:] S s [es]
H h [eitʃ] T t [ti:]
I i [ai] U u [ju:]
J j[ʤei] V v [vi:]
K k [kei] W w [dɅb(ə)lju:]
L l [el] X x [eks]

The Phonetic Alphabet

[ɑ:] arm, ask, after, answer, aunt, large, heart, laugh, star, castle
[Ʌ] up, cut, much, come, mother, country, enough, blood, flood
[e] bed, end, head, friend, said, again, guest, any, jealous
[æ] bad, and, had, black, catch, cabbage, hand, lamb, ran, sand
[i] is, milk, quick, build, pretty, become, busy, women, coffee
[i:] tree, sleep, eat, thief, believe, people, even, police, receive
[ə] about, away, actor, picture, centre, salad, children, potato
[ə:] hurt, turn, work, word, first, girl, bird, learn, earth, were, her
[ɔ] hot, dog, clock, not, watch, wash, sausage, because, cough
[ɔ:] almost, autumn, short, talk, fall, warm, source, abroad, floor
[u] put, bush, butcher, sugar, book, good, could, woman, wolf
[u:] do, lose, moon, roof, soon, June, flew, soup, huge, fruit

[ai] I, eye, ice, five, time, cry, sky, lie, fight, bicycle, Friday, buy
[ei] make, late, table, day, eight, they, great, nature, afraid, tail
[oi] oil, voice, join, point, boy, annoy, enjoy, destroy, employ
[eə] air, hair, chair, pair, care, bear, wear, there, their, where
[iə] ear, year, hear, here, near, beard, period, museum
[uə] poor, tour, sure, jury, during, furious, jewel, cruel, Europe
[əu] no, go, old, most, home, hotel, slow, boat, shoulder, toe
[au] town, cow, how, house, loud, mountain, trousers, about

[j] yes, year, yard, you, view, few, new, beauty, music, onion
[s] sit, close, nurse, passenger, miss, city, rice, pencil, science
[ʃ] ship, she, fish, sugar, sure, machine, tension, Russia, social
[tʃ] chair, much, which, kitchen, question, culture, picture, natural
[ʒ] usually, garage, illusion, pleasure, treasure, decision, visual
[ʤ] jam, joke, juice, gin, engine, danger, bridge, age, huge, hedge,
[ŋ] sing, young, strong, kingdom, finger, angry, language, tongue
[v] very, visit, village, never, over, travel, give, have, move, save
[w] well, walk, window, one, always, sweet, queen, equal, quiet
[θ] think, three, thirsty, nothing, path, mouth, truth, both, birth
[ð] the, this, then, father, brother, weather, rather, with, smooth

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