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- Vowels
| Symbol | Lexical set | RP | traditional GenAm | merged GenAm/Canada | GenAus | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ă | trap | /æ/ | /æ/; [ɛə̯] before a nasal | /æ/ | ||
| ăr | (marry) (before a vowel) | /æɹ/ | /æɹ/ | /ɛɹ/ | ? | |
| ă* | bath | /ɑː/ | /æ/; [ɛə̯] before a nasal (may not occur) | ? | ||
| ā | face | /eɪ/ | /eɪ/ | ? | ||
| ä | palm (not a good name), father | /ɑː/ | /ɑ/ (words like palm vary by speaker and need special handling) | ? | ||
| är, ar | (starry) (before a vowel) | /ɑːɹ/ | /ɑɹ/ | ? | ||
| är | start (not before a vowel) | /ɑː/ | ? | |||
| âr | (Mary) (before a vowel) | /ɛəɹ/ or /ɛːɹ/? | /eəɹ/ or /eɹ/? | /ɛɹ/ | ? | |
| âr, er | square (not before a vowel) | /ɛː/ | ? | |||
| ĕ | dress | /ɛ/ (or /e/?) | /ɛ/ | /e/ | ||
| ĕr | (merry) (before a vowel) | /ɛɹ/ | /ɛɹ/ | ? | ||
| er | merger of merry/marry/Mary (before a vowel) | — | — | /ɛɹ/ | ? | |
| ē | fleece | /iː/ | /i/ | ? | ||
| -ē (absolutely word-final) | happy | /i/ | /i/ | ? | ||
| ə | comma | /ə/ | /ə/ | /ə/ | ||
| ər | letter | /ə/ | /ɚ/ | ? | ||
| ĭ | kit | /ɪ/ | /ɪ/ | /ɪ/ | ||
| ĭr | (mirror) (before a vowel) | /ɪɹ/ | /ɪɹ/ | ? | ||
| ī | price | /aɪ/ | /aɪ/ or /ʌɪ/ (auto-determined) | ? | ||
| ī+ | (spider) (price set with Canadian raising forced) | /aɪ/ | /ʌɪ/ | ? | ||
| ī- | (?) (price set with non-Canadian raising forced) | /aɪ/ | /aɪ/ | ? | ||
| îr | (nearer) (before a vowel) | /ɪəɹ/ or /ɪːɹ/? | /ɪəɹ/ | /ɪɹ/ | ? | |
| îr, ir | near (not before a vowel) | /ɪː/ | /ɪəɹ/ | /ɪəɹ/ or /ɪɹ/? | ? | |
| ir | merger of mirror/nearer (before a vowel) | — | — | /ɪɹ/ | ? | |
| ŏ | lot | /ɒ/ | /ɑ/ | ? | ||
| ŏ* | cloth | /ɒ/ | /ɔ/ | /ɑ/ | ? | |
| ô | thought | /ɔː/ | /ɔ/ | /ɑ/ | ? | |
| ŏr | (orange?) (before a vowel) | /ɒɹ/ | /oɹ/ (but /ɑɹ/ in a small set of words in the US only, not Canada, which need to be split by dialect: borrow, sorry, sorrow, tomorrow, morrow; also regionally /ɑɹ/ in most or all words of the set) | ? | ||
| ör | (Laura / laura) (north before a vowel) | /ɔːɹ/ or /ɔəɹ/? (at the time this distinction existed in RP, I think /ɔə/ was still used) | /oɹ/ (historical /ɔɹ/) | ? | ||
| ör | north (not before a vowel) | /ɔː/ or /ɔə/? (at the time this distinction existed in RP, I think /ɔə/ was still used) | ? | |||
| ôr | merger of north/force (aka horse/hoarse) (before a vowel) | /ɔːɹ/? | /oɹ/ (/ɔɹ/ is not very accurate) | ? | ||
| ôr | merger of north/force (aka horse/hoarse) (not before a vowel) | /ɔː/ | ? | |||
| o | merger of lot/cloth/thought (aka cot/caught/khat) | — | — | /ɑ/ | — | |
| or | merger of north/force/orange (aka horse/hoarse/horror) | — | /oɹ/ (but see above for exceptions) | — | ||
| ō | goat | /əʊ/ | /oʊ/ | ? | ||
| ōr | (hoary?) (force before a vowel) | /oəɹ/ | /oɹ/ (historical /oɹ ~ oʊɹ/) | ? | ||
| ōr | force (not before a vowel) | /oə/ | ? | |||
| o͝o, ŏŏ | foot | /ʊ/ | /ʊ/ | ? | ||
| o͝or, ŏŏr | tour (before a vowel) | /ʊəɹ/ (conservative RP), /ɔːɹ/ (modern RP) | /ʊɹ/ | /ʊɹ/, /oɹ/ or /ɚ/ (depending on the word and speaker) | ? | |
| o͝or, ŏŏr | tour (not before a vowel) | /ʊə/ (conservative RP), /ɔː/ (modern RP) | ? | |||
| o͞o, ōō | goose | /uː/ (not an accurate phonetic rendering) | /u/ (not an accurate phonetic rendering except before /l/) | ? | ||
| ŭ | strut | /ʌ/ or maybe better /ɐ/ | ? | |||
| ŭr | (hurry) (before a vowel) | /ʌɹ/ or maybe better /ɐɹ/ | /ɚ/ | ? | ||
| ûr | (furry) (before a vowel) | /ɜːɹ/ | /ɚ/ | ? | ||
| ûr, ur | nurse (not before a vowel) | /ɜː/ | ? | |||
| ur | merger of hurry/furry (before a vowel) | — | — | /ɚ/ | — | |
| ū | (cute) (after a labial or velar) | /juː/ (not an accurate phonetic rendering) | /ju/ (not an accurate phonetic rendering except before /l/) | ? | ||
| ū | (tune) (after /t/, /d/, /s/, /z/) | /juː/ (conservative RP), /tʃuː/~/dʒuː/~/ʃuː/~/ʒuː/ (with yod-coalescence) | /u/ (not an accurate phonetic rendering except before /l/; in older Canada, /ju/ may be found) | ? | ||
| ū | (new) (after /n/) | /juː/ | /u/ (except e.g. in New York and older Canada where /ju/ may be found) | ? | ||
| ū | (lute) (after /l/, /θ/, /ð/) | /juː/ (conservative RP), /uː/ (modern RP) | /u/ | ? | ||
| ū | (chew or rule) (after postalveolar consonants, /r/, /j/ and stop + /l/) | /uː/ (only different in Welsh English) | /u/ | ? | ||
- Consonants
| Symbol | RP | traditional GenAm | merged GenAm/Canada | GenAus | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b | /b/ | ||||
| d | /d/ | ||||
| ch | /t͡ʃ/ | ||||
| dh | /ð/(th-fronting and th-stopping are nonstandard everywhere and need special handling) | ||||
| f | /f/ | ||||
| g | /ɡ/ | ||||
| h | /h/(h-dropping is nonstandard everywhere and needs special handling) | ||||
| hw | /ʍ/ where the wine-whine merger hasn't taken place, otherwise /w/ (we should strive to include this as it's easy to figure out based on the spelling) | ||||
| j | /d͡ʒ/ | ||||
| k | /k/ | ||||
| l | /l/ ([l] or [ɫ] depending on context) | /l/ (always [ɫ]) | ? | ||
| m | /m/ | ||||
| n | /n/ | ||||
| p | /p/ | ||||
| r | /ɹ/ | ||||
| s | /s/ | ||||
| sh | /ʃ/ | ||||
| t | /t/ ([tʰ] word-initially and syllable-initially as well as intervocalically; otherwise [t]) | /t/ ([tʰ] word-initially and syllable-initially; [ɾ] in a flapping context, which is autodetected; otherwise [t]) | ? | ||
| t! | /t/ (force [tʰ] where a flapping context is auto-detected, as in militaristic) | ? | |||
| t- | /t/ (force [ɾ] where a flapping context is not correctly auto-detected) | ? | |||
| th | /θ/(th-fronting and th-stopping are nonstandard everywhere and need special handling) | ||||
| v | /v/ | ||||
| w | /w/ | ||||
| y | /j/ | This means what it says; cases of yod-dropping or yod-coalescence will need respelling that explicitly notates that unless handled automatically by ū | |||
| z | /z/ | ||||
| zh | /ʒ/ | ||||