English Diction

Dipthongs, Mergers, and Vowels

Night diphthong

bright a and captial I

No dipthong

closed o and uppercase U

Day dipthong

closed e and uppercase I

Now dipthong

dark a and uppercase U

Boy dipthong

open o and uppercase I

All vowel dipthongs

Night, no, day, boy, now

Ear dipthong

uppercase I and schwa r

Air diphthong

open E and schwa r

Soar dipthong

open o and schwa r

Sure diphthong

uppercase U and schwa r

Heart diphthong

dark a and schwa r

All schwa r dipthongs

Ear, Air, Soar, Sure, Heart

Fire tripthong

bright a, uppercase I, schwa r

Flower Tripthong

dark a, uppercase U, schwa r

unvoiced consonant cognate of voiced B

P - unvoiced

Voiced consonant cognate of unvoiced t

d - voiced

unvoiced cognate of voiced g

k - unvoiced

unvoiced consonant cognate of voiced V

F - Unvoiced

unvoiced cognate of voiced z

s - unvoiced

The plosive consonants

b/p, d/t, g/k

The fricative consonants

v/f, z/s, 3/sh, unvoiced and voice th

consonants that can be merged

fricative, nasal and lateral (l) consonants

consonants that can not be merged

plosive consonants, semi vowel glide consonants (w, j, r)

other places where you cannot merge

throught a punctuation or rest, with a vowel