Pronunciation and construction of English phonetic sounds
ll the English phonetic sounds are constructed by applying the Concept of Sub-syllables of the English language which I have recently developed. The pronunciation of words are in consistence with IPA transcriptions (with some variations in modern standard dictionaries). The phonetic sounds are arranged in accordance to the closeness of the sounds and not in alphabetical orders.
Lots of examples (as practice format) are given to bring out the difference between the similar sounds. In the case of the pronunciation of words having more than two or more possible pronunciations, the first (and/or second/third) pronunciation is British pronunciation and the last pronunciation is American pronunciation provided the pronunciations are not common to both the British and American pronunciations.
Construction of the sound of-a (ahuh) (short).
[a] adapt (uh-dapt), algebra (al-juh-bruh), ant (ant), angle (ang-guhl), arrow (ar-oh), ash (ash),
bad (bad), bat (bat), cat (kat), clam (klam), finance (fy-nans), gland (gland), gram (gram),
grammer (gram-uh/gram-uhr), grand (grand), land (land), man (man), map (map),
marry (mar-i/mer-i), mascara (mas-kah-ruh/mas-kar-uh), mass (mas), planet (plan-it),
plaque (plahk/plak), salad (sal-uhd), salamander(sal-uh-man-duh/sal-uh-man-duhr),
salon (sal-on/sal-ahn),
[ae] Gaelic (ga-lik/gay-lik),
[ai] plaid (plad),
[ua] guarantee (gar-uhn-tee)/ guaranty (gar-uhn-ti/gar-uhn-ti ), guarantor (gar-uhn-taw/gar-uhn-tawr),
[e] prey (pray), they (thay), they’d (thayd), they’ll (thayl), they’ve (thayv),
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