Pronunciation guide PRONUNCIATION GUIDE This guide will help you to understand and use the pronunciation symbols found in this dictionary The British pronunciations given are those of younger speakers of General British This includes RP Received Pronuncia
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE This guide will help you to understand and use the pronunciation symbols found in this dictionary The British pronunciations given are those of younger speakers of General British This includes RP Received Pronunciation and a range of similar accents which are not strongly regional The American pronunciations chosen are also as far as possible the most general not associated with any particular region If there is a di ?erence between British and American pronunciations of a word the British one is given ?rst with NAmE before the American pronunciation Consonants p pen pen b bad b? d t tea ti d did k cat d ?d k? t ? get ?et t ? chain t ?e ?n d ? jam d ?? m f fall f ? l v van v? n thin ?n ? this ? ?s s see si z zoo zu ? shoe ?u ? vision ?v ? ?n h hat h? t m man m? n n now na ? sing s ? l leg le ? r red red j yes jes w wet wet The symbol r indicates that British pronunciation will have r only if a vowel sound follows directly at the beginning of the next word as in far away otherwise the r is omitted For American English all the r sounds should be pronounced x represents a fricative sound as in l ?x for Scottish loch Irish lough Vowels and diphthongs Ci see si i happy ?h? pi ? sit e ten s ?t ten ? cat k? t father ?f ? r ? got ? ?t British English ? saw s ? ? put p ?t u actual ?? kt ?u l u too tu cup k p ? fur f ? r about ?ba ?t e ? say se ? ? go ? ? British English o ? go ?o ? American English a ? my ma ? ? ? boy b ? ? a ? now na ? ? near n ? r British English e hair he r British English ? pure pj ? r British English Many British speakers use ? instead of the diphthong ? especially in common words so that sure becomes ? ? r etc The sound ? does not occur in American English and words which have this vowel in British pronunciation will instead have or ? in American English For instance got is ? ?t in British English but ? t in American English while dog is British d ? ? American d ? The three diphthongs ? e ? are found only in British English In corresponding places American English has a simple vowel followed by r so near is n ?r hair is her and pure is pj ?r Nasalized vowels marked with may be retained in certain words taken from French as in penchant ?p ? ? ? coq au vin k ?k ? ? Syllabic consonants The sounds l and n can often be ?
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