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    English Vowel Letters and Their Sounds

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    This document provides a table summarizing 20 English phonemes, their International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols, and common grapheme or letter combinations used to represent each phoneme in spelling. For each phoneme, one or more examples are given to illustrate the grapheme-phoneme correspondences.

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    This document provides a table summarizing 20 English phonemes, their International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols, and common grapheme or letter combinations used to represent each phoneme in spelling. For each phoneme, one or more examples are given to illustrate the grapheme-phoneme correspondences.

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    This document provides a table summarizing 20 English phonemes, their International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols, and common grapheme or letter combinations used to represent each phoneme in spelling. For each phoneme, one or more examples are given to illustrate the grapheme-phoneme correspondences.

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    Phoneme IPA Symbol Graphemes Examples

    1 æ a, ai, au cat, plaid, laugh


    2 eɪ a, ai, eigh, aigh, ay, er, et, ei, au, a_e, ea, ey bay, maid, weigh, straight, pay, foyer, filet, eight, gauge, mate, break, they
    3 e e, ea, u, ie, ai, a, eo, ei, ae end, bread, bury, friend, said, many, leopard, heifer, aesthetic
    4 i: e, ee, ea, y, ey, oe, ie, i, ei, eo, ay be, bee, meat, lady, key, phoenix, grief, ski, deceive, people, quay
    5 ɪ i, e, o, u, ui, y, ie it, england, women, busy, guild, gym, sieve
    6 aɪ i, y, igh, ie, uy, ye, ai, is, eigh, i_e spider, sky, night, pie, guy, stye, aisle, island, height, kite
    7 ɒ a, ho, au, aw, ough swan, honest, maul, slaw, fought
    8 oʊ o, oa, o_e, oe, ow, ough, eau, oo, ew open, moat, bone, toe, sow, dough, beau, brooch, sew
    9 ʊ o, oo, u,ou wolf, look, bush, would
    10 ʌ u, o, oo, ou lug, monkey, blood, double
    11 u: o, oo, ew, ue, u_e, oe, ough, ui, oew, ou who, loon, dew, blue, flute, shoe, through, fruit, manoeuvre, group
    12 ɔɪ oi, oy, uoy join, boy, buoy
    13 aʊ ow, ou, ough now, shout, bough
    14 ə a, er, i, ar, our, ur about, ladder, pencil, dollar, honour, augur
    15 eəʳ air, are, ear, ere, eir, ayer chair, dare, pear, where, their, prayer
    16 ɑ: a arm
    17 ɜ:ʳ ir, er, ur, ear, or, our, yr bird, term, burn, pearl, word, journey, myrtle
    18 ɔ: aw, a, or, oor, ore, oar, our, augh, ar, ough, au paw, ball, fork, poor, fore, board, four, taught, war, bought, sauce
    19 ɪəʳ ear, eer, ere, ier ear, steer, here, tier
    20 ʊəʳ ure, our cure, tourist

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