Key to Pronunciation (table)
Key to Pronunciation Symbols| u | sofa (sO´fu), item (I´tum), easily (E´zulE),
cannon (kan´un), circus (sûr´kus) | | a | act (akt), bat (bat) | | A | ape (Ap), fail (fAl), day (dA) | | â | air (âr), care (kâr) | | ä | art (ärt), father (fä´ður) | | b | back (bak), labor (lA´bur), cab (kab) | | ch | chin (chin), hatchet (hach´ut), rich (rich) | | d | dock (dok), lady (lA´dE), sad (sad) | | e | end (end), steady (sted´E), met (met) | | E | eve (Ev), clear (klEr), see (sE) | | f | fat (fat), phase (fAz), cough (kôf) | | g | get (get), bigger (big´ur), tag (tag) | | h | hand (hand), ahead (uhed´) | | hw | wheel (hwEl), which (hwich) | | i | it (it), pill (pil), mirror (mir´ur) | | I | iron (I´urn), eye (I), buyer (bI´ur) | | j | jam (jam), ginger (jin´jur), edge (ej) | | k | kit (kit), tackle (tak´ul), cook (kook) | | l | little (lit´ul), holly (hol´E), pull (pool) | | m | man (man), hammer (ham´ur), climb (klIm) | | n | new (noo), known (nOn), winner (win´ur) | | ng | singing (sing´ing), finger (fing´gur),
sang (sang), sank (sangk) | | o | hot (hot), body (bod´E) | | O | over (O´vur), hope (hOp), grow (grO) | | ô | orbit (ôr´bit), fall (fôl), saw (sô) | | oo | foot (foot), wolf (woolf),
put (poot), pure (pyoor) | | OO | boot (bOOt), lose (lOOz), drew (drOO),
true (trOO) | | oi | oil (oil), royal (roi´ul), boy (boi) | | ou | out (out), crowd (kroud), how (hou) | | p | pipe (pIp), happy (hap´E) | | r | road (rOd), appeared (upErd´),
carpenter (kär´puntur) | | s | so (sO), cite (sIt), baste (bAst) | | sh | shall (shal), sure (shOOr), nation (nA´shun) | | t | tight (tIt), better (bet´ur), talked (tôkt) | | th | thin (thin), bath (bath) | | ð | then (ðen), father (fä´ður), bathe (bAð) | | u | but (but), flood (flud), some (sum) | | û | curl (kûrl), girl (gûrl), fern (fûrn),
worm (wûrm) | | v | vest (vest), trivial (triv´Eul), eve (Ev) | | w | wax (waks), twins (twinz), coward
(kou´urd) | | y | you (yOO), onion (un´yun) | | z | zipper (zip´ur), ease (Ez), treads (tredz) | | zh | pleasure (plezh´ur), rouge (rOOzh) |
Foreign Sounds| ö | as in French peu (pö), German Goethe (gö´tu) | | ü | as in French Cluny (klünE´) | | kh | as in German ach (äkh), ich (ikh); Scottish loch (lokh) | | N | this symbol indicates that the preceding vowel is nasal as in French cinq
(saNk), un (öN), sans (säN), tombe (tôNb), en (äN) | Accents and Hyphens| ´ | primary accent, written after accented vowel or syllable: Nebraska (nubras´ku), James Buchanan (byOOka´nun) | | " | secondary accent: Mississippi (mis"us-sip´E) | | – | dash, replacing obvious portion of pronunciation: hegemony (hijem´unE,
hE–, hej´umO"nE, heg´u–) | | - | hyphen, to prevent ambiguity in syllabification: Erlanger (ûr´lang-ur),
dishearten (dis-här´tun) |
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