IPA - International Phonetic Alphabet

/i/

beet

/ɪ/

bit

/e/

bait

/æ/

bat

/u/

boot

/ɜ/

bet

/ə/

but

/ʌ/

above

/a/

father

/ɔ/

port

/ʊ/

put

/ɒ/

bot

/aɪ/

bite

/eɪ/

hay

/ɔɪ/

hoy

/ɪə/

here

/ʊə/

tour

/aʊ/

how

/oʊ/

hoe

/eə/

hair

"ee" (bead, see, niece)

[i]

"ih" (bid, his, sin, pretty)

[ɪ]

"ay" (paid, may, came)

[e]

"eh" (bed, said, bread)

[ɛ]

"a" (bad, pack, jazz)

[æ]

"ah" (pod, cot, father)

[ɑ]

"awe" (pawed, caught)

[ɔ]

"uh" (bud, was, rough)

[ʌ]

"oh" (hoed, coat, note)

[o]

"uuh" (good, would)

[ʊ]

"ooh" (boot, food, noon, new, tune)

[u]

"yew" (beauty, fume)

[iu]

"eye" (eye, mine, pie)

[ɑi]

"ow" (how, bout, loud)

[ɑu]

"oy" (boy, loin, point)

[oi]

"uh" (uh, about, America)

[ə]

"huh" (hat, house, ahoy)

[h]

toot, chew, super=high, back, tense, rounded

/u/

(unstressed) prohibit, brocade, bodacious=high-mid, back, tense, rounded

/o/

fleet, we, creek= high, front, tense, retracted

/i/

(unstressed) chaotic, rotate, decade=high-mid, front, tense, retracted

/e/

cod, rotten, stop, plod= low, back, tense, retracted

/a/

(stressed schwar) furnace,curse, third, purple

=mid,central,tense, rounded

/3^/

("East Coast" sound)-prawn, frog, haul, ought

=low-mid, back, tense, rounded

/ɔ/

(stressed version of /ə/)-rub. public, flood, button, undone=

low-mid, back-central, lax, retracted

/ʌ/

(unstressed "schwa")- astound, tuna, command

=mid, central, lax, retracted

/ə/

should, put, sugar, would=high, back, lax, rounded

/ʊ/

met, steady, repent=low-mid, front, lax, retracted

/ɛ/

flit, whittle, listen, sister=high, front, lax, retracted

/ɪ/

("schwar", unstressed)-pertain, runner, under=

mid, central, lax, rounded

/ɚ/

(jaw/tongue in lowest position)-trash, batter, jazz, thank

=low, front, lax, retracted

/æ/

(stressed including monosyllables, or end of word)- flow, cone, toad, probate, bloated

=high-mid, back, tense, rounded

/oʊ/

(dipthong) loud, clown, sour, trousers

/aʊ/

(dipthong) toy, join, exploit, ahoy

/ɔɪ/

(dipthong) in stressed syllables and end of words-grade, tape, trait

/eɪ/

(dipthong) -buy, height, feisty

/aɪ/

/i/

peat

/ɪ/

pit

/e/

pet

/æ/

pat

/u/

boot

/ɜ/

pert

/ə/

apart

/ʌ/

but

/a/

part

/ɔ/

port

/ʊ/

put

/ɒ/

pot

/aɪ/

high

/eɪ/

hay

/ɔɪ/

hoy

/ɪə/

here

/ʊə/

tour

/aʊ/

how

/oʊ/

hoe

/eə/

hair

/p/

pet

/b/

bet

/t/

tale

/d/

dale

/k/

came

/g/

game

/m/

meat

/n/

neat

/ŋ/

sing

/f/

fine

/v/

vine

/θ/

thick

/ð/

this

/s/

seal

/z/

zeal

/ʃ/

mesher

/ʒ/

measure

/tʃ/

choke

/dʒ/

joke

/l/

leap

/r/

reap

/w/

woo

/j/

you

/h/

hoot