PHONETICS

SOUND USUAL SPELLING But also...

CONSONANTS p parrot

VOICELESS (sordas)
p pp disappear
t tie worked passed
t tt kettle receipt - doubt
c cute chemist - choir
k key ache school
k ck neck expect
qu queue account
f flower
tough
f ph elephant
cough
ff traffic
s snake scientist - scene
s ss dress psychologist
ce / ci celebrity peace - cinema cycle
sugar - sure
sh shower
brochure
ti + vowel operation
moustache
ci + vowel sociable
anxious - pressure
th truth - healthy
ch chess
tch match cello
t + (ure) future
h h house whose - whole
b bag
b bb robbery
d dog failed
d dd middle bored
g drug ghost
g gg beggar ghetto
l leg
l ll chilly
m home climb
m mm mummy comb
n nose knew
n
VOICED (sonoras)

nn tennis foreign
r right write
r rr borrow wrong
television - decision - confusion - pleasure - usually - garage
th mother with - that
v v review of
j jealous
g original soldier
-dge knowledge
z freezing
z zz dizzy dessert
s loves museum miserable
w witch one
w wh wheel once
y you
j before u university - human
view
-ng singer
before k ankle
 SOUND USUAL SPELLING But also...
or horse
brought - caught
al talk
aw law
warm - floor
course - board
au exhausted
clock cough - because
o
body watch - knowledge
ar car
a staff
palm - laugh - heart
a cat - glad
reliable eccentric
pretty women
fish
i
sick
decided village
bandage - business
builder - symptoms
ee feel believe - key
VOWELS

i ea team people - ski

e even receipt
u push could - would
u oo book - woollen woman
oo soup - juice - suit
boot - loose
ew shoe - move
u news - chew
queue - beautiful
u (especially before flu - confused
consonant + e) through
VOWEL SOUNDS

er allergic earth - learn

ir thirsty - bird - third world - word - work
ur burn - hurt worse - journey
Many different spellings, always unstressed.
doctor - teacher - computer opinion about - other
healthy - friend
e e egg
many - says - said
flood - blood
u but - up - lung - trumpet
o glove money - tongue
rough - enough
couple - trouble
DIPHTHONGS

a (especially before danger safe great - break

consonant + e)
e ai train neighbour - suede
ay may - say survey - grey
o (especially before phone - both soul - although
consonant + e)
oa throat - load sew owe
ow elbow blow aubergine
i (especially before bike eyebrow
consonant + e)
a y style neither - height
igh high buy
ou ground
a ow owl
oi choice
oy boy
eer beer area
ere atmosphere idea
ear appear series
air chair everywhere - their
e are square bear scary - area
Very unusual sound: furious - assure insecure - tourist - euro
plural surely