19 hàng · Table 1. Guide to the US English phonetic alphabet: vowels; Sound Symbol As in Suggested Comments “ae” AE. add cat pan. ae. The short “a” sound. “ah” AA. are drop collar. ah. Rarely wrong but sometimes an open 'o' sound is used instead of the 'ah'. So spell 'mot' as 'maht' to change it from 'moat' to 'mott'. “uh” AH. one come 'Uh' or double the following letter

A phoneme is a speech sound that is capable of changing the meaning of a word. For example, substituting the last sound in the word kiss with the sound /l/ creates another word – kill. Therefore, /s/ and /l/ are phonemes. Phonemic transcription uses phonemes to show the pronunciation of words. It is written between slashes, as in the examples below:

Sound of Letter Name. All sounds of letter. Examples. A, a. ā-ee (long a to long e, also spell "ay") æ, ā, ah, ā-uh, uh. cat, late, all, and, around. B, b. Bee. buh. bike. C, c. See. kuh, suh. cake, city. D, d. Dee. duh. did. E, e. Ee. eh, ee, silent. bed, free, late. F, f. Ef. fuh. fed. G, g. Jee. guh, juh. glad, large. H, h. ā-ch. huh, silent. hotel, what. I, i. ah-ee . ah-ee, ĭ. light, sit. J, j. Jay. juh. jump. K, k

Main phonetic terms used in description and classification of English vowel sounds in ESL materials are explained here according to the American variant of pronunciation. English alphabet There are 26 letters in the English alphabet: Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz.

The following charts concentrate on the sounds of Standard American English. These charts are done in the standard IPA. If you are using a text like the Language Files, which uses the American Phonetic Alphabet, be aware of the following conversions: = = = = = = Examples of each IPA vowel