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Pronunciation and spelling table
| consonants | vowels |
| key other common | key other common |
| word spellings | word spellings |
| p pen happy | i: sheep field team key scene |
| b back rubber | amoeba |
| t tea butter walked doubt | i ship savage guilt system |
| d day ladder called could | women |
| k key cool soccer lock | e bed any said bread bury friend |
| school cheque | æ bad plaid laugh (AmE) |
| g get bigger ghost | calf (AmE) |
| tf cheer match nature question cello d3 jump age edge soldier gradual f fat coffee cough physics | a: father calm heart laugh (BrE) bother (AmE) о pot watch cough (BrE) |
| half | laurel (BrE) |
| v view of navy | э: caught ball board draw four |
| и thing 5 then s soon city psychology mess | floor cough (AmE) и put wood wolf could |
| scene listen | u: boot move shoe group |
| z zero was dazzle | flew blue rude |
| example (/gz/) | л cut some blood does |
| J* fishing sure station tension vicious chevron | э: bird burn fern worm earn |
| 3 pleasure vision rouge | journal |
| h hot whole | э cupboard the colour actor |
| m sum hammer calm bomb | nation danger asleep |
| n sun funny know gnaw rj sung sink | ei make pray prey steak vein |
| l led balloon battle | |
| r red marry wriggle rhubarb | эи note soap soul grow sew toe |
| j yet onion use new Europe | a\ bite pie buy try guide sigh |
| w wet one when queen (/kw/) | au now spout plough |
| x loch | oi boy poison lawyer |
| is here beer weir appear fierce | |
| ЕЭ there hair bear bare their prayer | |
| иэ poor tour sure | |
| ei3 player | |
| эиэ lower | |
| ai3 tire | |
| аиэ tower | |
| oi3 employer |
from Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Symbols and conventions
| AmE | American English |
| BrE | British English |
| Not * * | likely student error |
| zero article | |
| () | optional element |
| / / | phonetic transcription |
| [> ] | cross-reference |
| [> App] | Appendix reference |
| D | definition of technical terms (used only in the index) |
| ' (as in 'progress) | stress mark |
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