Monophthongs

[i:]

<ee> → heel, sleep

<ea> → steal, read

<e> → be, me

Less common:

• <i> → police

• <ie> → piece

• <ei> → receive

• <ey> → key

[i]

<i> → if

<e> → pretty, dances

Exceptions:

• <o> → women

• <u> → busy, minute

• <a> → village, biscuit

[e]

<e> → bed, letter

<ea> → dead, jealous

Less common:

• <a> → any

• <ai, ay> → said, says

• <eo> → leisure, Leicester

• <u> → bury

[ɛ:]

<ur> → curly, occur

<er> → permit, person

<ir, yr> → dirty, sir

<ear> → search, earn

<eur> → amateur, Fleur

<or> → Word, worse

Less common:

• <our> → courtesy, journal

• <ol> → colonel

[ae]

<a> → add, apple

Less common:

• <ai> plaid, plait

/ʌ/

<u> → up, begun

Less common:

• <o> → onion, won

• <ou> → enough, touch

• <oe> → does

• <oo> → blood, flood

[aː/

<ar> → art, argue

<a> → after, class

Less common:

• <al> → half

• <au> → aunt, laugh

• <ear> → heart, hearth

• <er> → clerk, sergeant

[ɒ]

<o>

Less common:

• <a> → wash

• <au> → sausage

• <eau> → bureaucracy

• <ou> → cough

• <ow> → knowledge

• <ach> → yacht

[ʊ]

<oo> → good, foot

<u> → put, pull

Less common:

• <ou> → could, would

• <o> → wolf, woman

[ɔ:]

<or> → or, more

<al> → talk

<ar> → war, reward

<au, aw> → pause, law

<ou> → pour, ought

<aa> → oar, broad

<oor> → door, floor

[u:]

<oo> → tool, roof

<u> → rule, June

<ew> → flew, chew

<o> → do, move

<ou> → group, wound

<ue> → blue, sue

<ui> → suit, juice

<oe> → shoe, canoe

[ju:]

<u> → unit, humour

<ue> → due, residue

<eu> → eucalyptus

<ew> → few

<eau> → beauty

<ewe> → ewe

<iew> → view

[ə]

• possible

• Ago

• Oblige

• Suppose

• Particular

• Mother

• Doctor

• Figure