12.06.2013

Vowels, Diphthongs, and Consonants



This is my assignment of Pronounciation Class.. I Hope this is will be useful :)

Vowels
i:              = meat, eat, beat
I               = him, fit, big, lip, pit, if
ʊ              = cook, look, good, hook, book
u:             = too,
e              = wet, leg, beg, pet, egg, bed, ted
ə              = ago, the, a
ɜ:             = girl, birth, shirt
ɔ:             = door, or, snore
æ             = pat, at, bad, rat, cat
ʌ              = fun, gun, hug, luck
ɑ:             = car
ɒ              = fog, god, hot, pot



Diphthongs
                ei            = make, take, lake, eight, weight, face, date, day, they, grey
                ɔI            =soil, choice, boy, noise, toy
                aI            = life, price, my, high, flight, mice, ride, sky, buy,cry, tie
                            = idea, ear, fears, beer, pier, hear
                ʊə           = sure, tour, poor, pure, your, cure,
                           = there, hare, bare, scares, bear, pair, hair
                əʊ           = house, no, so, or, phone, both, rose, road, toast, soul
                           = mountain, amount, cow, road, how, now, brown



Consonants
                p             = depth, except, adopts, equips, jumps, perhaps, step, kept
                b             = absorbed, verbs, jabs, robbed,
                t              = eighth, mets, part, waits, puts, eats, cats, fights, midst
                d             = almonds, beds, birds, hands, kinds, weeds, words
                k             = sixth, fact, worked, contexts, expects, texts, conflicts
                g             = bagged, hugged, tagged, eggs, mugs, rugs
                            = cheese, choose, hitched, matched, watched
                           = edged, waged, caged
                f             = fifth, craft, gift, left, soft, lift,after, often, chefs, chiefs, laugh
                v             = arrived believed, involved, lived, saved, proved, loves, waves
                Ѳ            = baths, cloths, maths, paths, truths, oaths
    ð             = clothes, soothes, bathes, seethed
    s             = crisp, gasp, chased, first, thirsts, ask, desk, risk
    z             = amazed, crazed, gazed, phrased, phased, lazed
    ʃ             = cashed, fished, mashed, washed
    ȝ             = leisured, measured, pleasured, treasured
    h             = hot, hits, hurry
    m            = bump, aimed, comes, times, formed, lump, terms
    n             = month, ant, font, want, behind, found, friend, ends, pens, pinch
    ŋ             = length, instinct, things, think
    l              = filmed, help, bulbed, self, health, difficult, cold, held, holds
    r             = alarm, arm, warm, angry, zebra
    j             = nature, gradual, future, feature, creature
    w            = went, whole, weeks