Phoenetic Transcription

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Phoenetic Transcriptions and Abbreviations

Consonant Sounds
$[sound]$	pet, spin, top
	boat, baby, job
	top, stop, but
	done, radio, bad
	cat, uncle, look
	go, again, flag
	food, before, knife
	very, travel, love
	thin, everything, bath
	the, either, smooth
	send, post office, nurse
	zoo, easy, quiz
	shop, ocean, English
	television, garage
	chair, teacher, watch
	July, enjoy, age
	late, color, feel
	read, very, your
	we, away
	year, music
	he, behind
	man, amount, swim
	no, any, learn
	singer, long
	butter, also pronounced as /t/ or /d/

Vowel Sounds
	meat, see, believe
	mit, his, this- in most unstressed positions
	mate, eight, negation
	met, said, friend
	mat, half, cat
	box, lot, doll (American English only)
	bought, law, call
	boat, wrote, know
	book, put, should
	boot, suit, through
	but, love, sum (stressed)
	about, area, method (unstressed)
	bird, turn, learn (stressed)
	teacher, factor, popular (unstressed)

Dipthongs
	buy, lie, side
	boy, noise, point
	now, about, down

Abbreviations

The abbreviations used in this book include:

adj.for adjective,
adv.for adverb,
conj.for conjunction,
n.for noun,
V.for verb,
v.t. for transitive verb.

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Consonant Sounds

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Dipthongs

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