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English Pronunciation Tips

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    • Reflexives and the tonic
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  • Mini dictionaries
    • Animals
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    • Chemical elements A – E
    • Chemical elements F – N
    • Chemical elements O – S
    • Chemical elements T – Z
    • Finance
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  • Miscellaneous
    • Affricate sequences
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    • house
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    • No syllabic n, thank you!
    • Perhaps
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    • Some irregular plurals
    • Stranding
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    • Tricky pairs
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    • ðz and zð (how to cheat)
  • Names
    • -bo(u)rne
    • -borough -burgh
    • -bury
    • -cester
    • -chester
    • -ese
    • -folk
    • -ford
    • -ham
    • -mouth
    • -ness
    • -port
    • -sex
    • -son
    • -stone & -ston
    • -wich
    • Beautiful places
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    • Caribbean
    • Dorset, Somerset
    • Glamis and Wemyss
    • holm, hulme
    • Ireland
    • Keighley
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    • Some given names
    • Some troublesome place-names
    • Two-part place-names
    • USA
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  • Oddities
    • Bass
    • Blancmange
    • Broad
    • Brooch
    • Chamber
    • cheese and geese
    • Choir
    • Christ
    • Courtesy
    • Cushion
    • Equation
    • Fever and lever
    • Funny business
    • Gaol and margarine
    • Gross
    • Iron
    • Leisure, seizure
    • Mauve
    • Mayor
    • Meringue
    • Mortgage
    • Quay
    • Scone
    • Shoe
    • Sponge
    • Subpoena
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    • Wrath
    • Yacht
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    • bio-
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    • Peri-
    • Poly-
    • Tele-
    • Un-
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  • Spelling to sound
    • <-se> Episode 1
    • <-se> Episode 2
    • <-se> Episode 3
    • <a> is not ʌ
    • <ai>
    • <al>
    • <au>
    • <bt>
    • <cc>
    • <ch> = k
    • <ch> = ʃ
    • <ea> = e
    • <eak>
    • <ear> = ɜː
    • <ease>
    • <ei> = eɪ
    • <eigh>
    • <eo>
    • <g> = ʒ
    • <gain>
    • <ge> and <gi>
    • <gn>
    • <i> = iː
    • <mb>
    • <ng>
    • <ng> again
    • <o> = uː
    • <on> = ʌn
    • <ood>
    • <ose>
    • <ost>
    • <ou> = uː
    • <ou> = ʌ
    • <ough>
    • <ound>
    • <oup>
    • <our> = ɜː
    • <ove> = ʌv
    • <ove> does not = ʌv
    • <qu> = k
    • <s> = ʒ
    • <ss>
    • <th> = t
    • <ui>
    • <w(h)a> and <qua(w)>
    • <wor> = wɜː
    • Initial <th> = ð
    • Silent <h>
    • Silent <s>
    • Silent <w>
  • Stress
    • -aire
    • -eer
    • -esque
    • -ette
    • -ic and -ical
    • -ity
    • -ocracy
    • -oo
    • -oon
    • -proof
    • -worthy
    • Abbreviations
    • Blue, green, red
    • Roads and Streets
    • Stress variation
    • Stressful Christmas?
  • Symbols
  • Transcriptions
    • Transcription 1
  • Vowels
    • No schwa!
    • Vowel alternation: aɪ ~ ɪ
    • Vowel alternation: eɪ ~ æ
    • Vowel alternation: iː ~ e
    • Vowel alternation: əʊ ~ ɒ
    • ə elision in the first syllable
  • Word endings
    • -(m)ony = (m)əni
    • -(n)gue
    • -ac
    • -ade
    • -age = ɑːʒ
    • -ance
    • -ane
    • -ary and -ory
    • -ate
    • -chief
    • -cious
    • -eous
    • -et
    • -ex(e)
    • -ful(ly)
    • -gm
    • -i = aɪ
    • -ice
    • -ine
    • -ious
    • -ique
    • -ite = ɪt
    • -less
    • -ment
    • -mn
    • -ngle
    • -nomy & -tomy
    • -olic
    • -on
    • -oose
    • -oric(al)
    • -our
    • -our = aʊə
    • -path
    • -pathy
    • -re
    • -sis
    • -sten & -stle
    • -ture
    • -ward(s)
    • Non-silent <e>

Chemical elements A – E

Actinium ækˈtɪniəm
Aluminium ˌæljəˈmɪniəm
Americium ˌæməˈrɪsiəm
Antimony ˈæntɪməni
Argon ˈɑːɡɒn
Arsenic ˈɑːsnɪk
Astatine ˈæstətiːn
Barium ˈbeəriəm
Berkelium bɜːˈkiːliəm
Beryllium bəˈrɪliəm
Bismuth ˈbɪzməθ
Bohrium ˈbɔːriəm
Boron ˈbɔːrɒn
Bromine ˈbrəʊmiːn
Cadmium ˈkædmiəm
Calcium ˈkælsiəm
Californium ˌkæləˈfɔːniəm
Carbon ˈkɑːbən
Cerium ˈsɪəriəm
Cesium ˈsiːziəm
Chlorine ˈklɔːriːn
Chromium ˈkrəʊmiəm
Cobalt ˈkəʊbɔːlt
Copernicium ˌkəʊpəˈnɪsiəm
Copper ˈkɒpə
Curium ˈkjʊəriəm
Darmstadtium dɑːmˈʃtætiəm
Dubnium ˈduːbniəm
Dysprosium dɪˈsprəʊziəm
Einsteinium aɪnˈstaɪniəm
Erbium ˈɜːbiəm
Europium jʊəˈrəʊpiəm

This “mini-dictionary” gives just one acceptable General British pronunciation for each of the terms listed. In many cases other pronunciations are possible.


2013_12_10
Updated: 23_12_21

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