SHORT VOWELS
/ I / Examples: Iguana, Ink, Fish , Bin, Six, Live, chicken, shift, big, sick, fish,
split, sit, ship, spit, lick , lid, will, wish, rich, win, bit, did, dish, wig, quiz, quill,
shit, bitch, sip.
/ ǝ / Examples: corner , dinner, power, worker, dancer, mother, cooker.
/ ʊ / Examples: cook, foot, pull, push, bullet, bulletin, bully, butcher, good,
pudding, sugar, hood, look, took, wool, stood, could, would, should, full, wolf,
woman, push.
/ ʌ / / ʌn / / ʌm / Examples: us, under, among, umbrella, luck, come, honey,
money, mother, brother, country, courage, bus, butter, fun, summer, thunder,
couple, double, trouble, young, company, stomach, Monday, none, London,
government, love, son, won.
/ e / Examples: pet, wet, net, let, get, then, never, any, let, egg, accept, end,
already, desk, dead, deaf, friend, instead, hell, forget, correct, hotel, bread, said,
again, bet, many, breakfast.
/ ɶ / Examples: fat, black, back, act, add, and, ankle, apple, animal, bank,
can, family, happy, travel, bad, hand, happen, plan, tax, madman.
/ ɒ / Examples: orange, off, often, obvious, October, box, job, follow, got, hot,
model, possible, lot, not, pot, boss, chocolate, office, want.
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LONG VOWELS
/ i : / Examples: eel, bead, eve, easy, economic, east, eat, evil, easel, beast,
ceiling, deal, gene, legal, bee, sea, refugee, employee, free, sleep, deep, keep,
concrete, convenient, chief, believe, brief, thief, niece, receive, key, kiosk, kiwi,
pizza, marine, unique, boutique, antique, gasoline, routine, vaccine, people,
amoeba, foetus, oedema, feel, see, weekend, need, kilo, cheese, cheese.
/ ɔ : / Examples: born, draw, author, on, office, abroad, ought, cloth, broad,
thought, talk, small, flaw, jaw, raw, thaw, water, all, call, ball, tall, almost,
already, alter, alright, always, false, autumn, cause, because, clause, launch,
drawn, hawk, lawn, shawl, yawn, caught, daughter, taught, naughty, cough,
ought, thought, bought, fought, quarter, war, warm, warn, afford, cork, force,
horse, door, floor, pour, before, bore, core, more, score, store, course, court,
four.
/ u : / Examples: moon, june, blue, approve, movie, choose, fool, school, flu,
blue, bamboo, kangaroo, ooze, boot, cool, food, zoo, group, soup, through, you,
youth, shoe, include, june, rule, truth, sue, true, blue, glue, blew, chew, crew,
drew, screw, threw, to, too, who, fruit, juice, suit, cruise, bruise.
/ α : / Examples: ark, bar, hard, are, art, arm, argue, army, father, bar, card,
farm, garden, car, charge, dark, department, laugh, aunt, start, farm, alarm.
/ ǝ : / / 3: / Examples: earn, early, earth, urban, service, learn, surface,
birthday, girl, work, first, firm, dirty, thirsty, doctor, worry, worst, worse,
world, occur, murder, curtain, turn, return, journal, journalist, search, heard,
mother, winner, person, perfect, her.
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DIPHTHONGS
/ I ǝ / Examples: dear, fear, near, real, experience, nearly, period, appear,
idea, career, year, area, ear, gear, beer, engineer, peer, volunteer, here,
atmosphere, mere, severe, we’re, interfere.
/ a ʊ / / aʊn / Examples: cow, mouth, loud, hour, out, outcome, output,
owl, our, outside, outline, doubt, pound, proud, cloud, flower, allow, how, row,
vow, now, brown, clown, crowd, eyebrow, vowel, towel, bound, compound,
count, found, mountain, down, shout, around, council.
/ ʊ ǝ / Examples: insure, lure, sure, pure, cure.
/ e ǝ / Examples: pair, hair, lair, air, airport, aeroplane, aerobic, heir,
careful, compare, rare, share, prayer, repair, chair, fair, millionaire, stairs,
bear, pear, swear, tear, wear, there, where, dare, nightmare, fairplay.
/ e I / Examples: day, aim, bake, ache, age, page, able, aid, eight, cake, date,
game, chain, explain, main, away, delay, display, may, okay, pay, escape, lake,
gate, male, make, name, same, sale, brain, claim, paid, rain, wait, contain,
pray, say, play, stay, today, way, grey, hey, survey, they, obey, break, great,
steak, neighbor, neighbour, weight, weigh.
/ ǝ ʊ / (uk) /o ʊ / (us) Examples: coat, own, doe, owe, ocean, home, phone,
social, goat, shoulder, though, joke, close, pole, smoke, local, program, focus,
low, row, bow, go, so, grow, although, arrow, below, barrow, bowl, follow,
know, window, toast, throat, road, goal, coat, goat, toe, goes, Joe, only, old,
over, open, oval.
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/ a I / / aInd / / Aild / Examples: high, lie, bike, ice, island, idea, icon, I,
eye, item, identity, find, tight, light, die, pie, sky, type, why, wild, child, gild,
mild, blind, mind, price, smile, wine, time, lie, tie, tried, fly, apply, style, tile,
smile, line, guide, my, cry, shy, fight, sight, height, right, night, knight, might,
mile, buy, guy.
/ ɔ I / Examples: boil, boy, toy, oil, oyster, ointment, oink, oily, avoid,
appoint, appointment, join, voice, royal, employ, boy, troy, enjoy, soil, choice,
coin, joint, noise, destroy, destroyer, annoy, soy.
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