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British English Single Vowel Sounds |
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| the, letter, calendar, picture, figure, a, an, at, thorough, madam, nation, woman, accept, effort, from, around, for, avalanche, Edinb(u)rgh, azure, Asia, to, Jesus, surgeon, surprise, gathered, hello, hallo, hullo, rumour, banal, nomenclature, circuitous | |
| bird,
burden, heard, herd, world,
were, colonel, courtesy curl, girl, early, search, sir, surgeon, occur, fur, circuit |
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| | beat,
breathe, seat, sheet, receive, brief, serene,
turkey, the (before vowels), we, he, she, pecan |
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| bit, kit, mint, hill, hymn, women, it, which, av(e)rage, language, pigeon, cyclical, bicycle, pretty,enquiry, mortgage, miniature, signature, hypocrisy, forage, lettuce, busy, Jesus's, build, captain, aegean, vinyl, business, mountain, waited, beloved | |||
| bet,
let, set, weather,
whether, when,
leisure, friend, measure, breath, ahead, instead, feather |
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| air,
where, wear, there,
their, they're, hair, care,
scare, scarce, square, various, pear, welfare, fair, aware |
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| bat, cat, hat, add, madam, and, back, avalanche | |||
| but,
cup, some, mother, come, other, above, Monday, love, thorough ('gh' = silent), tough ('gh' = 'f'), flourish, flood |
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| bad, mad, sad, glad, man, ma'am, land | |||
| cart,
heart, half, arm, radar,
calm, avalanche,
scarred sergeant, garage, tomato, banal, aunt, aren't, are |
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| should, good, would, could, wood, woman, wolf | |||
| shoe,
to ('strong' form), two,
too, you, who, whose, lieutenant (also pronounced "ef"), true, sue, route, chew, brew, eschew, cruise, through |
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| cot,
hot, got, on, from (final),
what, watch,
want, falter quality, sausage, cough ('gh' = 'f'), swamp |
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| caught, court, cauterize, auction, pause, cortisone, bought, sport, war, all, or, awe, raw, roar, for (final), former, claw, clause, door, boring, talk, you're, poor, draw, warm |
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| A final note: "to", "the", and "at", "from" and "for"are pronounced as above, except at the end of a phrase, in which case the 'strong' form (Eg 'to' rhyming with 'shoe') may be used. The strong forms of "the" (rhyming with "tea") and "to" may also be used before a vowel. |
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Our warmest thanks go to ...
| Speaker | Geographical origin | Date of recording | Approx age |
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Natalie
Brown |
Colchester |
April, 2000 April, 2000 |
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