Phonetic Symbols

1

/ɪ/

e.g. big, Britain, busy, sit, lip, English, is, this, women, live

2

/e/

e.g. desk, friend, weather, men, egg, ten, pen, bed, send, next

3

/æ/

e.g. cat, language, exactly, stamp, hat, man, ham, map, apple, than

4

/ɒ/

e.g. hot, across, continent, not, dog, shop, watch, odd, wrong

5

/ʊ/

e.g. book, woman, full, football, bull, put,         look

6

/ʌ/

e.g. cut, butter, colourful, but, hut, young, welcome, run, love, sun

7

/ə/

e.g. afraid, London, breakfast, America, computer, freedom, woman

1

/i:/

e.g. tree, people, police, see, cheese, these, need, sea, please, free

2

/ɑ:/ 

e.g. basket, ask, photograph, part, car, arm, bar, father, glass, star

3

/ɔ:/

e.g. ball, blackboard, daughter, sort, door, abroad, tall, horse,         water

4

/u:/

e.g. blue, school, afternoon, too, pool, moon, truth, shoe, tooth         

5

/ɜ :/

e.g. burn, girl, prefer, word, shirt, world, first, work, church

1

/eɪ/

e.g. day, afraid, great, name, train, lake, late, Spain, cake, play

2

/aɪ/

e.g. July, decide, buy, my, light, time, eye, knife, write, right, wine

3

/ɔɪ/

e.g. boy, voice, enjoy, toy, noise, choice, point

4

/əʊ/

e.g. close, know, moment, go, phone, clothes, old, home, road, stone

5

/aʊ/

e.g. town, flower, mountain, how, mouse, ground, cow, mouth, house

6

/ɪə/

e.g. hear, here, appear, deer, idea, career, theatre, ear, dear, weird

7

/eə/

e.g. hair, wear, parents, where, bear, share, fair, air

8

/ʊə/ 

e.g. sure, January, tour, tourist, poor, jewel, sewer, cure