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| | '''[[English language|English]]''' is notorious for its many varied, inconsistent and irregular '''[[spelling]]s'''. This can be seen at its most extravagant in the field of [[English noun#Types of nouns|proper noun]]s—for example, simply adding an 'h' to 'Maria' to make it rhyme with 'pariah', or calling oneself 'Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh' while pronouncing it 'Chumley Fanshaw'. An example of a common [[misspelling]] is 'disasterous' for 'disastrous', retaining the 'e' of 'disaster'. Many words do not turn out to have the pronunciation they appear to have: 'do' and 'to' do not rhyme with 'go' and 'no', while 'seismic', instead of being 'seezmic' or 'sayzmic', or even 'sayizmic', is in fact 'size-mic'. The above grid (reproduced and explained below) provides links to three lists and a '''[[A (letter)|cluster of articles]]''' devoted to these things. |
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| | To show pronunciation, these articles use correct spellings with added [[Accent (pronunciation)|accent]] marks, instead of relying on the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] (IPA). In some cases incorrect respellings are placed next to the correct ones, signalled by a preceding asterisk, like '''thís''' *thíss. The accent marks show pronunciation, '''thús'''. A table of these accents (which are not part of the language<ref>A few different accents, mostly from French, sometimes crop up in English, however; see [[French words in English]].</ref>) can be found below; there is also an [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] key at [[English phonemes]]. Where there is more than one accent, the first is [[stress (linguistics)|stressed]], and the same is true after a hyphen, so in the respelling of '''Tchaikóvsky''', *Chŷ-kóffskỳ, it is 'kóff' that has the main stress. (Another way of showing new stress is with a bar: '''Tchaî'''|'''kóvsky'''.) A sentence from the preceding paragraph can thus be rewritten as follows: "An example of a common misspelling is *disāsterous for '''disāstrous''', retaining the '''E''' of '''disāster'''." Respelling may be used to exemplify an incorrect spelling, or show a correct pronunciation, or a bit of both. Unlike the [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]], where there can only be one version per pronunciation, as there must be an unambiguous one-to-one correspondence, there can be many respellings: if *disāsterous for '''disāstrous''' is a common mistake, we can also represent the pronunciation as *dizāstrus or *dizāstrous or *dizāstrəss (with 'ə', a special character – the only one used – for [[schwa]]); or we can contrast [[British English]] *dizàstrus with [[American English|American]] *dizástrus. |
| [[English_spellings/A|A]] [[English_spellings/B|B]] [[English_spellings/C|C]] [[English_spellings/D|D]] [[English_spellings/E|E]] [[English_spellings/F|F]] [[English_spellings/G|G]] [[English_spellings/H|H]] [[English_spellings/I|I]] [[English_spellings/J|J]] [[English_spellings/K|K]] [[English_spellings/L|L]] [[English_spellings/M|M]] [[English_spellings/N|N]] [[English_spellings/O|O]] [[English_spellings/P|P]] [[English_spellings/Q|Q]] [[English_spellings/R|R]] [[English_spellings/S|S]] [[English_spellings/T|T]] [[English_spellings/U|U]] [[English_spellings/V|V]] [[English_spellings/W|W]] [[English_spellings/X|X]] [[English_spellings/Y|Y]] [[English_spellings/Z|Z]] [[English_spellings/Apostrophe|Apostrophe]]''' | |
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| :''The letter links above lead to alphabetically arranged selections of commonly misspelt and/or mispronounced words, alongside some regular ones for contrast; in addition, the present page features a 'retroalphabetical' list (see Contents) with words arranged alphabetically by their final letters''
| | Particular attention is given to [[homophones]], words with the same pronunciation but different meanings. English is rich in homophones, many of which are also homonyms, having also the same spelling, as, for example, '''cán''' ''able, tin'' (the italicised words suggest meanings, in this case two); while homographs are words with the same spelling whose meanings are distinguished by different pronunciations. |
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| '''English''' is famous, even notorious, for its varied '''spellings'''. This can be seen at its most extravagant in the field of proper names, as, for example, simply adding an 'h' to 'Maria' to make it rhyme with 'pariah', or calling oneself 'Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh', pronounced 'Chumley Fanshaw'. On a more prosaic level, however, there are dangers. An example of a common misspelling is 'disasterous' for 'disastrous', retaining the 'e' of 'disaster'. And conversely, words may not turn out to have the pronunciation they appear to have: 'do' and 'to' you might expect to rhyme with 'go' and 'no', while 'seismic', instead of being 'seezmic' or 'sayzmic' or even 'sayizmic' is in fact 'size-mic'. These lists are devoted to these things.
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| A few notes on how to read them: linguists conventionally signal an incorrect spelling by putting an asterisk before it, like *thiss, and here we also include accent marks to show stress and pronunciation, '''thús'''. A table of these (which are not part of the language<ref>Different accents, mostly from French, are sometimes used, however; see [[French words in English]]. Also, some Hawaiian words have accents.[http://www.geocities.com/~olelo/o-pronunciation.html]</ref>) can be found at the end of this article; there is also an [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] key at [[English phonemes]]. Where there is more than one accent, the first is stressed, and the same is true after a hyphen, so in the respelling *Chŷ-kóffsky, it is 'kóff' that has the main stress. A sentence from the preceding paragraph can thus be rewritten as follows: An example of a common misspelling is *disāsterous for '''disāstrous''', retaining the '''e''' of '''disāster'''.
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| Particular attention is given to [[homophones]], words with the same pronunciation. English is rich in homophones; it also has many homonyms, words with the same spelling and pronunciation, and homographs, words with the same spelling but different pronunciation. Examples of all three are grouped together here.
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| Also of special note are words that many writers incorrectly divide. '''ôver''' and '''dûe''', for example, combine to form '''overdûe''', without a space in the middle. Such examples are included with ‘one word’ alongside them: '''alongsîde''' one word. | | Also of special note are words that many writers incorrectly divide. '''ôver''' and '''dûe''', for example, combine to form '''overdûe''', without a space in the middle. Such examples are included with ‘one word’ alongside them: '''alongsîde''' one word. |
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| An equals sign = is placed between homophones (in some cases the approximately equals sign ≈ is more appropriate). Homographs and other similar-looking words are included after 'cf.' (from Latin ''conferre'', 'compare'). | | An equals sign = is placed between homophones (in some cases the approximately equals sign ≈ is more appropriate). Homographs and other similar-looking words are included after 'cf.' (Latin ''conferre'', 'compare'). |
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| Some words from other languages, in most cases French, may appear in English with accents from those languages. Such spellings are shown using bold italics: '''touchè''' may be written with a French accent: '''''touché''''' *tooshây. | | Some words from other languages, in most cases French, may sometimes appear in English with accents from those languages. Here, such spellings are shown using bold italics: '''touchè''' may be written with a French accent: '''''touché''''' *tooshây. |
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| The apostrophe is an important part of spelling and so it is treated as a letter, with its own place at the end of the alphabet. Fragments of words are in bold when correctly spelt: '''Ukrâine''' has -'''âine''', not -âne. Words in ''italics'' are used to suggest meanings, in the case of similar words. The word ''person'' (or ''persons'' after more than one) implies either a personal or family name. Such words are included because they often contrast with the spellings of homophones, for example a bank clerk might be named '''Clàrk''' or '''Clàrke''', but most probably not 'Clerk' (which is pronounced identically in [[British English|BrE]]). It may, of course, also be a commercial or place name, as this is a matter regarding individuals: the fact that one is more likely to meet a person, most probably male, called '''Maurice Mórris''' than one called '''Mórris Maurice''', both words and hence both names being pronounced the same in BrE ('''Maurìce''' in [[American English|AmE]]), is about as relevant as the fact that one is unlikely to meet a person called either. | | The [[apostrophe]] is an important part of spelling and so it is treated as a letter, with its own place at the end of the alphabet. |
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| | Fragments of words are in bold when correctly spelt: '''Ukrâine''' has -'''âine''', not -âne. |
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| ==Retroalphabetical list== | | Words in ''italics'' are used to suggest meanings (e.g. '''sêa''' ''water'' = '''sêe''' ''vision'', where the equals sign denotes identical pronunciation). Words beginning with an initial capital may have no word in italics following: these are names of people, either personal or family, and/or commercial or place names. Such words are included because they often contrast with the spellings of homophones: a bank clerk might be named '''Clàrk''' or '''Clàrke''', but probably not 'Clerk' (though [[British English|BrE]] '''clerk''' = '''Clàrk'''/'''Clàrke'''). Unusual spellings can be explained by regular ones: '''Cloúgh''' = '''Clúff'''. An American called '''Maurìce Mŏrris''' could just as well be called '''Mórris Maurice''' ("Morris Morris") in Britain, where '''Maurice''' = '''Mórris''' (although it would be putting the conventional surname before the conventional given name). |
| :''For the conventionally alphabetical list, see the links at the top of the page''
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| This list is in alphabetical order beginning with the final letter of the word and continuing backwards through it. The headword is on the right. In this way, suffixes and other word endings can be seen grouped together, just as prefixes can be seen in normal alphabetical order. So, instead of '''ádd båll coúsin''', we have '''réplicA fláB plástiC'''; and so for '''mûsiC''', see under -'''c''', for '''mûsicaL''', see under -'''l''', for '''pàrticlE''', see under -'''e''', and so on.
| | ==Links to letter articles and lists== |
| | {{:English_spellings/Catalogs/Masterlist}} |
| | In the navigation table above (reproduced at the top of each article in the [[CZ:Article structure|cluster]]) the cells in each row link as follows: |
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| | *Top row: '''''articles''''' on each letter and its use in English. There are similar articles on [[GH]], the [[apostrophe]] and the [[hyphen]]. |
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| Throughout, the apostrophe is treated as the last letter, after '''z'''.
| | *Second row: '''''alphabetical''''' lists of of commonly misspelt and/or mispronounced words, alongside more regular words they may be confused with (words beginning with an apostrophe are [[English spellings/Catalogs/Apostrophe|here]]). Some incorrect spellings are also listed, signalled by an asterisk: *dispánd '''disbánd''' means that the word is 'disband'. (The ''bottom row'' is devoted entirely to misspellings and typos.) |
| For clarity, italic association words are to the left of the example word:
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| | *Third row: '''''retroalphabetical''''' lists, arranged alphabetically according to the final letter of the word and continuing backwards through it: |
| | ::In the retroalphabetical lists the headword is on the right. In this way, suffixes and other word endings can be seen grouped together, just as prefixes can be seen in normal alphabetical order. So, instead of '''ádd båll coúsin''', we have '''réplicA fláB plástiC'''; and so for '''mûsiC''', see under -'''C''', for '''mûsicaL''', see under -'''L''', for '''pàrticlE''', see under -'''E''', and so on. |
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| ''woman'' '''mâid''' = ''make'' '''mâde''' | | ::Some suffixes are included separately; their pronunciation may or may not apply to following words ("always -'''ãrian'''" means there is no other pronunciation of -'''ãrian'''). |
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| [[British English|BrE]] ''barrier, drink'' '''bàr''' = ''sheep'' '''bàa'''
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| '''Ábba | | ::Some incorrect spellings are listed retroalphabetically, in which case the misspelling goes on the right, just as in the alphabetical list: |
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| '''Shêba | | *Bottom row: '''''common misspellings''''' including '''''typos''''' (blue-linked for checking purposes), followed by the correct versions. |
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| '''Cûba | | Two main varieties are distinguished: [[British English]] (BrE), that of the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and much of the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] (see also [[Commonwealth English]]), and [[American English]] (AmE), that of the [[United States of America|USA]] and [[Canada]] (without the [[caught-cot merger|'''cåught''' = '''cót''']] merger that has occurred in some parts of North America). |
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| | These accents are intended to show the pronunciation while retaining the spelling: they are not part of the language. Those on '''i''' and '''y''' show the same sound; similarly with '''u''', '''oo''' and '''w'''. Accented vowels are stressed ('''ỳ''' is normally unstressed, as in '''háppy'''). '''ā''', not in the table, means that the sound is '''à''' in standard British and Commonwealth pronunciations but '''á''' in American and other British and Commonwealth speech. |
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| | |colspan=3 align=center|'''Front vowels |
| | |colspan=5 align=center|'''Back vowels |
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| | !y<ref>When not accented, '''y''' is usually the semi-consonant of '''yoû''' and '''yés'''.</ref> |
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| | !w<ref>When not accented, '''w''' is usually the semi-consonant of '''wê''' and '''wíll'''.</ref> |
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| | |width=36%|The typical short sound, never occurring at the end of a word (acute accent) |
| | |width=8%|'''pét |
| | |width=8%|'''pít |
| | |width=8%|'''crýpt |
| | |width=8%|'''cát |
| | |width=8%|'''dóg'''<ref>In American English this short British sound is replaced by the longer '''à''' in most positions, and by '''ŏ''' before '''r'''.</ref> |
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| | |The typical long sound, corresponding to the names of the letters A, E, I, O and U (circumflex accent) |
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| | |'''èight''' (= â) |
| | |'''machìne''' (= ê) |
| | |'''quaỳ''' ''water'' = '''kêỳ''' ''lock'' <br>(= ê) |
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| | |'''òther''', '''blòod''' <br>(= ú) |
| | |'''fùll''' (= oò), '''qùantity''' (= w) |
| | |'''foòt''' (= ù) |
| | |'''ẁant''' (= wó)<ref>Grave accents on '''w''' and on a '''u''' following a '''q''' indicate the sound of the following '''a''': '''à''' in American English, but in British the extra sound '''ó''' as in the British pronunciation of '''hót'''.</ref> |
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| | |The '''ër''' sound (umlaut accent) |
| | |'''përson |
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| | |'''sew''' (= '''sô''') |
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| | |'''woman''' (*wùmən), '''women''' (*wímən) |
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| | |'''bélle''' ''beauty'' (= '''béll''' ''ring'') |
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| | |'''foôd, foòt, flòod, doŏr''' |
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| clóss- '''claustrophôbìa
| | '''A''': '''â''' (the indefinite article, when stressed), '''èh?''' ''what? |
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| rhymes with '''milítia''': -íshə -'''ícia
| | '''B''': '''bê''' ''exist'', '''bêe''' ''sting |
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| '''Alícia | | '''C''': occasionally '''cêe'''; '''sêe''' ''look'', '''sêa''' ''ship |
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| '''Galìcia | | '''D''': [[River Dee|'''Dêe''' ''River]], ''surname'' |
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| '''Patrícia | | '''E''': '''ê''' as in '''êmail''', '''ê-mail |
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| '''Albânia | | '''F''': '''éff''' as in the euphemism '''éff óff |
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| '''Tanzanìa | | '''G''': '''gêe''' ''up, exclamation'' *jêe |
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| '''Armênia | | '''H''': '''âitch''' as in '''drópping your âitches |
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| .*skítzô-frêniə '''schizophrênia
| | '''I''': '''Î''' ''me'', '''eŷe''' ''vision |
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| '''Slovênia | | '''J''': '''jây''' ''bird |
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| '''insómnia | | '''K''': '''Kây''' ''person |
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| Wó- '''Wallônia
| | '''L''': '''él''' ''elevated railway'' ([[American English|AmE]]) |
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| '''ària | | '''M''': '''ém''' ''dash |
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| '''malãria | | '''N''': '''én''' ''dash |
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| '''Bavãria | | '''O''': '''ôwe''' ''debt'', '''ôh!''' ''exclamation |
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| '''Alexāndria | | '''P''': '''pêa''' ''pod'', '''pêe''' ''urine'', '''p''' ''pence'' ([[British English|BrE]]) |
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| '''Lîbêria | | '''Q''': '''queûe''' ''line'', '''cûe''' ''ball'', ''prompt |
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| '''hystêria | | '''R''': '''àre''' ''be'', BrE '''àh''' ''exclamation |
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| pìts- '''pizzerìa
| | '''S''': occasionally '''éss |
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| '''Victŏria | | '''T''': '''têa''' ''drink'', '''têe''' ''golf'', '''tì''' ''do-re-mi |
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| '''trattorìa | | '''U''': '''yoû''' ''me'', '''eŵe''' ''sheep |
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| .*Âyshə or *Âyzhə '''Âsia
| | '''V''': '''[[Bobby Vee|Vêe]]''' ''Bobby'' |
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| -zhə '''amnêsia
| | '''W''': "'''doúble you'''" (*dúblyu; cf. '''vácûum''', which actually does have a '''doúble Û''') |
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| -zhə '''Indonêsia | | '''X''': '''éx-''' ''past |
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| .*Toô-nìzhə [[American English|AmE]]; [[British English|BrE]] Chû-nízìə '''Tunisia'''
| | '''Y''': '''whŷ''' ''reason'' (voiced '''w''', as in BrE) |
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| -zhə '''Maláysia
| | '''Z''': BrE '''zéd''', AmE '''zêe |
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| | ==''The Chaos''== |
| | by Gerard Nolst Trenité |
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| -tìə '''Ossétia
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| '''Patrícia''' rhymes with '''milítia | | '''The Châós''' (*câyóss) |
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| | Stúdying English (*Ínglish) pronunciâtion, |
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| '''là
| | :Î wíll têach yoû ín mŷ vërse |
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| '''Kampàla
| | :Sòunds lîke cŏrpse, cŏrps (*cŏr), hŏrse and wörse. |
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| '''Mandéla
| | Î wíll kêep yoû, Sûsy, busy (*bízzy), |
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| -zwâyla '''Venezuèla
| | Mâke yŏur héad wíth hêat grôw dízzy; |
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| '''umbrélla | | :Têar ín eŷe, yŏur dréss yŏu'll téar; |
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| '''côla
| | :Quêer, fãir sêer (*sêe-er), hêar mŷ prãyer. |
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| '''scrófula
| | Prây, consôle yŏur lòving pôet, |
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| .*pé-nínssyələ '''península
| | Mâke mŷ côat loòk neŵ, dêar, sew (=sô) ít! |
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| | :Júst compãre heàrt, hêar and hëard, |
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| '''Mà
| | :Dîes and dîet (*dîət), lŏrd and wörd. |
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| | Swŏrd (*sŏrd) and swård, retâin and Brítain |
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| '''Pánamà | | [Mînd the látter hòw ít's wrítten]. |
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| '''dràma
| | :Mâde hás nót the sòund of báde, |
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| or -mə '''cínemà
| | :Sây–said (*séd), pây–pâid, lâid but pláid. |
| | Nòw Î sůrely wíll nót plâgue yoû |
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| '''Émma
| | Wíth súch wörds as vâgue and âgûe, |
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| '''dilémma
| | :Bút bê cãreful hòw yoû spêak, |
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| '''diplôma
| | :Sây: gúsh, bùsh, steâk, strêak, breâk, blêak, |
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| '''carcinôma
| | Prêvious, précious, fûchsia (*feŵsha), vîa, |
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| | Récipê, pîpe, stúdding-sâil, choîr (=quîre); |
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| '''Victoriàna
| | :Wôven, óven, hòw and lôw, |
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| .*Loû-êasy-Ánna '''Louisiána | | :Scrípt, recêipt (*rissêet), shoe (=shoô), pôem, tôe. |
| | Sây, expécting fråud and tríckerỳ: |
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| '''banāna
| | Dåughter (*dåwter), làughter (*làfter) ánd Terpsíchorê (*Terpsíckery), |
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| '''Fontāna
| | :Brànch, rànch, mêasles, tópsails, aîsles (*îles), |
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| '''Montána
| | :Míssîles, símilês, revîles. |
| | Whôlly (=hôly), hólly, sígnal, sîgning (*sîning), |
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| -wàna '''iguàna
| | Sâme, exámining, but mîning, |
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| | :Schólar (*scóllar), vícar, and cigàr, |
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| '''nì'''- '''nirvàna
| | :Sôlar, mîca, wår and fàr. |
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| '''Guyāna
| | From "desîre": desîrable - ádmirable from "admîre", |
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| '''vagîna
| | Lúmber, plúmber, biêr, but brîer, |
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| | :Tópsham, broûgham (*breŵəm), renòwn, but knôwn, |
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| '''Regîna
| | :Knówledge, dòne, lône, góne, nòne, tône, |
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| '''Polyánna
| | Òne (=wòn), anémonê, Balmóral, |
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| | Kítchen, lîchen (=lîken), låundry, laurel (lórrel). |
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| '''hénna
| | :Gërtrude, Gërman (J-), wínd and wînd, |
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| '''anténna
| | :Beau (=Bô), kînd, kíndred, queûe, mankînd, |
| | Tŏrtoise (*tŏrtus), türquŏise, chámois-léather (*shámwà-), |
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| | Rêading, Réading, hêathen, héather. |
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| '''bôa
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| '''Nôah''' rhymes with '''Gôa
| | :Gíves móss, grôss, broòk, brôoch, nînth, plínth. |
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| '''Pà | | To (=toô)<ref>Strong form of '''to''', not normal in a verb's infinitive, necessitated by the metre.</ref> pronòunce revêred and sévered, |
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| | Bíllet dòes nót énd lîke bállèt (*bállây); |
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| | Boûquèt, ẁallet, mállet, chálèt. |
| | :Blòod and flòod are nót lîke foôd, |
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| '''Andŏrra''' AmE; BrE '''Andórra
| | Bánquet ís nót nêarly pàrquèt, |
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| '''Sumàtra | | Whích exáctly rhŷmes wíth khàkì. ''—not usually nowadays'' |
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| | :Díscòunt, vîscòunt (*vîcòunt), lôad and brŏad, |
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| | :Towård, to fŏrward, to (=toô) rewård, |
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| '''Sinàtra
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| '''strâta''' AmE ≈ BrE '''strâighter''' - '''stràta
| | :Ròunded, woûnded, griêve and síeve, |
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| | :Friénd and fiênd, alîve and líve. |
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| -wə '''Manágua
| | :Hûgh, but húg, and hoòd, but hoôt, |
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| | :Buŏyant, mínute, bút minûte. |
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| -yûə or -wə '''Nicarágua
| | Sây abscíssion wíth precísion, |
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| '''Gàza
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| | :Cŏrnice, nîce, valìse, revîse, |
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| .*pêetsa '''pìzza | | :Râbíes, but lúllabîes. |
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| | Óf súch púzzling wörds as nåuseous, |
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| '''stáb | | Woùld yoû lîke some mŏre? Yoû'll háve ít! |
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| '''ébb
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| | :Dòes nót sòund lîke Czéch but âche. |
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| | Líberty, lîbrary, hêave and héaven, |
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| '''níb
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| .*lám '''lámb
| | :Wê sây hállôwed, bút allòwed, |
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| .*lím '''límb | | :Pêople, léopard, tôwed but vòwed. |
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| .*côam '''cômb | | Betwêen mover (*moôver), plòver, Dôver. |
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| | :Lêaches, brêeches, wîse, precîse, |
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| .*dúm '''dúmb
| | :Chálíce, bút polìce and lîce, |
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| .*thúm '''thúmb
| | Cámel, cònstable, únstâble, |
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| | Prínciple, discîple, lâbel. |
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| | :Pétal, pênal, and canál, |
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| .*núm '''númb
| | :Wâit, surmîse, pláit, prómíse, pál, |
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| .*bóm '''bómb | | Sûit, suìte, rûín. Cïrcuít, cónduít |
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| .*côam '''cômb | | Rhŷme wíth "shïrk ít" and "beyónd ít". —''still?'' |
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| '''hóbnob | | :Whŷ ít's påll, måll, but Páll Máll. |
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| .*dŏrnób '''dŏorknob
| | Múscle, múscular, gâol (=jâil), îron, |
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| AmE *érb '''hërb
| | Tímber, clîmber, búllion, lîon, |
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| '''ŏrb
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| '''súburb
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| '''blürb
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| '''pertürb
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| '''distürb
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| '''cúb
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| '''dúb
| | :Coùrier, cŏurtier, tomb (*toôm), bómb, cômb, |
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| | :Còw, but Cowper (=Coôper), sòme and hôme. |
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| | Quôth hê, "than liqueûr ŏr líquor", |
| '''mâniac
| | :Mâking, ít ís sád but trûe, |
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| '''lîlac | | Neîther dòes devòur wíth clángour. —''neither does anger: *áng-gə'' |
| | :Pîlot, pívot, gåunt, but āunt, |
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| | :Fónt, frònt, wônt, wånt, gránd and grānt. |
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| '''Quebéc
| | Rélic, rhétoric, hygìênic. |
| | :Goòseberry, goôse, and clôse, but clôse, |
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| '''terrífic
| | :Páradise, rîse, rôse, and dôse. |
| | Sây invèigh, nèigh, but invêigle, |
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| '''horrífic
| | Mâke the látter rhŷme wíth êagle. |
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| '''lógic
| | :Mînd! Mêándering but mêan, |
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| .*shêek '''chìc | | :Válentîne and mágazìne. |
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| '''pýrrhic
| | Ánd Î bét yoû, dêar, a pénny, |
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| '''éthic
| | Yoû sây máni-(fôld) lîke many (*ménny), |
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| '''Góthic
| | :Whích ís wróng. Sây râpier, pìêr, |
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| '''mýthic
| | :Tîer (òne who tîes), but tìêr. |
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| '''repúblic
| | Àrch, archângel; prây, dòes ërring |
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| '''seîsmic
| | Rhŷme wíth hérring ŏr wíth stïrring? |
| | :Príson, bîson, tréasure trôve, |
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| '''irónic
| | :Trêason, hóver, còver, côve, |
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| '''Byrónic
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| '''herôíc | | Rhŷmes (but pîebåld dòesn't) wíth níbbled. |
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| | :Phâeton, paêan, gnát, ghåt, gnåw, |
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| ''ill'' '''síck''' = ''thus'' '''síc'''
| | :Liên, psŷchic, shóne, bône, pshåw. |
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| -zíc '''mûsic
| | Dôn't bê dòwn, mŷ ôwn, but roúgh ít, |
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| '''grêed
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| '''wêed
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| '''áct''' = -'''ácked
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| ''tactful'' '''táct''' = ''tack'' '''tácked
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| '''stácked
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| AmE '''tráveled
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| -ld '''fîled
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| -ld '''smîled
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| -ld '''pîled
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| '''l''' doubled after stressed syllable - BrE and AmE '''rebélled
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| BrE '''trávelled
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| '''abándoned
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| '''boôed
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| -pt '''stépped
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| '''réd
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| ''bare'' '''bãred
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| '''scãred
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| .*sâycríd '''sâcred
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| '''hámpered
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| cf. '''compãred''' - '''cómpéred
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| two syllables '''neûtered
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| '''revêred
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| '''sévered
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| '''mîred
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| cf. '''hâte''' - *hâtíd '''hâted
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| cf. '''hâte''' - *hâtríd '''hâtred
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| cf. '''kînd''' - *kíndríd '''kíndred
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| -rəd '''húndred
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| ''bar'' '''bàrred
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| ''food'' '''bâste''' = ''base'' '''bâsed
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| .*bîast '''bîased
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| -'''éssed''' mostly rhymes with -'''ést''': '''conféssed
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| .*blést, but can be *bléssid before a noun '''bléssed
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| '''asséssed
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| '''obséssed
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| -tíd -'''ted
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| '''tàrgeted
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| .*rícoshâid '''rícochèted
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| '''intërpreted
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| '''excîted
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| '''éxited
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| '''ẁanted
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| '''bígoted
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| -vd '''shôved
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| -vd '''lòved
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| '''allòwed
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| '''hállowed
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| '''néxt''' rhymes with '''séxed
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| ''stare'' '''stãry-eŷed
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| ''star'' '''stàrry-eŷed
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| ''person'' '''Bŏyd''' = ''buoy'' '''buŏyed
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| '''âid
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| '''lâid
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| ''make'' '''mâde''' = ''woman'' '''mâid
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| .*pâyed '''pâid
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| ''bray'' '''brâyed''' = ''hair'' '''brâid
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| .*séd '''said
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| '''bíd
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| '''díd
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| '''líd
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| '''sqùalid
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| '''válid
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| '''vŏid
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| '''rápid
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| '''vápid
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| '''flûíd
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| '''Réginald
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| '''Rónald
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| '''géld
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| '''héld
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| '''fìêld
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| '''wìêld
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| '''mèld
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| '''wéld
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| '''gíld
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| '''chîld
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| '''mîld
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| '''wîld
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| '''ôld
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| '''bôld
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| '''fôld
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| '''thrêefôld
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| '''gôld
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| '''hôld
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| '''x yêars ôld''' in the plural, but hyphens when it's an ''adjective or noun'' '''x-yêar-ôld'''
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| '''sôld
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| '''tôld
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| cf. '''gôld''' - '''Goûld
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| cf. '''coùld, shoùld''' and '''woùld''', all -ùd - '''môuld
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| '''ánd
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| '''hánd
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| '''lánd
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| -lənd: mostly schwa in (place or people’s) names, where it conveys familiarity: -'''lánd''' used for countries suggests alienness, even lack of sovereignty -'''land'''
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| '''Díxielánd'''
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| Tŷ- '''Thaîland
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| '''blánd''' = '''Blánd
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| '''Åuckland
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| '''Hólland
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| '''a''' as schwa before nouns, e.g. '''Ínland Révenue''', otherwise '''á''' - '''ínlánd
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| schwa possible in adjectival use - '''mâinlánd
| |
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| '''Fínland
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| '''Pôland
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| '''Láplánd
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| '''Súnderland
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| '''mòtherlánd
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| '''hínterlánd
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| '''ôverlánd
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| '''Swítzerland
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| '''Quêensland
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| '''Scótland
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| '''heàrtland
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| '''Mãryland
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| '''demānd
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| '''Hélmand
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| '''sánd
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| '''fìênd
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| '''friénd
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| '''blénd
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| '''pénd
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| '''rénd
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| '''sénd
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| '''ténd
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| '''wénd
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| '''bînd
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| ''crime'' '''fîned''' = ''discover'' '''fînd
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| '''hînd
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| one word '''hûmankînd
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| '''blînd
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| '''mînd
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| '''rînd
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| '''támarínd
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| ''blow'' '''wínd
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| ''round'' '''wînd
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| '''beyónd
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| '''ròund
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| '''woûnd
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| ''religion'' '''Gód''' = ''idol'' '''gód
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| '''clód
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| '''nód
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| '''pód
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| '''foôd
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| '''goòd
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| '''hoòd | |
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| no y before -'''hoòd
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| '''lîkelihoòd
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| '''lîvelihoòd
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| '''moôd
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| '''broôd
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| '''woòd
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| apart from monosyllables, mostly -ə(r)d -'''ard
| |
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| '''càrd
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| '''bêard
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| '''hëard
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| '''hàrd
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| .*Ríchərd '''Ríchard
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| '''shàrd
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| '''làrd
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| cf. ''wide'' '''brŏad''' - ''boring'' '''bŏred''' = ''wood, company'' '''bŏard
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| .*cúbbərd '''cúpboard
| |
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| '''flŏorbŏard
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| .*lépərd '''léopard
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| '''lêotàrd
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| '''bāstard
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| '''bústard
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| .*gàrd '''guàrd
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| '''wård
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| '''báckward
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| '''åwkward
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| except for [[Frankie Howerd|Fránkie Hòwerd]]: '''Hòward
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| '''yàrd
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| '''házard
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| '''lízard
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| '''wízard
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| '''blízzard
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| '''búzzard
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| ''hear'' '''hëard''' = ''animals'' '''hërd
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| '''nërd
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| '''bïrd
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| ''tie'' '''chŏrd''' = ''vocal'' '''cörd
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| ''person'' '''Fŏrd''' = ''water'' '''fŏrd
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| name suffix, -fəd -'''ford
| |
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| '''Brádford
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| '''Rédford
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| '''Blándford
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| '''Rétford
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| '''Óxford
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| ''rope'' '''cŏrd''' = ''music'' '''chörd
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| '''wörd
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| '''absürd
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| '''türd
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| '''applåud
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| '''Måud
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| '''fråud
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| '''Î’d
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| ''listen'' '''hêed''' = ''he'' '''hê’d
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| '''shê’d
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| ''plant'' '''wêed''' = ''we'' '''wê’d
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| .*prâycêed '''prècis’d
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| '''ít’d
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| '''yoû’d
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| '''thèy’d
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|
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|
| ===E===
| | Ánd distínguish bùffèt, búffet; |
| final '''e''' is mostly silent; for words often italicised and ending in written -'''''é''''' see [[French words in English]]. '''e'''
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| AmE -'''ê''' -'''aê
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| '''nébulaê
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| '''fŏrmulaê
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| '''anténnaê
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| '''nôvaê
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| '''scrîbe
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| '''descrîbe
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| ''medicine'' '''prescrîbe''' ≈ ''illegal'' '''proscrîbe
| |
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| zé- '''xénophobe
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| '''lôbe
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| '''fâce
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| .*préffis '''préface
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| .*ménnis '''ménace
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| '''Ẁallis''' = '''Ẁallace
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| .*Hórris, rhyming with words in -'''óris''' - '''Hórace
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| .*térris '''térrace
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| '''îce
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| '''sácrifîce
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| '''órifíce''' BrE; AmE '''ǒrifíce
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| '''sürplíce
| |
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| '''nîce
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| '''Véníce
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| '''cŏrníce
| |
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| '''chŏice
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| '''vŏice
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| '''hóspíce
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| '''thrîce
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| '''caprìce
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| '''trîce
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| '''pôultíce
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| '''láttíce
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| ''BrE verb'' '''práctíse''' = ''noun, AmE verb'' '''práctíce
| |
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| '''nôtíce
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| '''devîce
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| '''crévíce
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| '''véngeance
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| sometimes written as in French '''''séance''''' - '''sèànce
| |
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| '''chānce
| |
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| '''vígilance
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| '''románce
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| '''perfŏrmance
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| ''noun = verb'' either stressed '''fînánce
| |
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| '''híndrance
| |
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| '''forbéarance
| |
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| ''enter'' '''éntrance
| |
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| ''beguile'' '''entrānce
| |
| | |
| cf. '''exístence''' - '''stānce
| |
| | |
| cf. '''exístence''' - '''resístance
| |
| | |
| AmE '''lîcense''', cf. BrE and AmE '''suspénse''' - '''lîcence
| |
| | |
| .*ákwêeyéssənss; cf. '''présence''', -zənss - '''acquiéscence
| |
| | |
| '''câdence
| |
| | |
| '''décadence
| |
| | |
| '''transcéndence
| |
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| '''subsîdence
| |
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| '''évidence
| |
| | |
| '''próvidence
| |
| | |
| cf. '''dénse''' - '''fénce
| |
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| AmE '''defénse''' - '''defénce
| |
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| AmE '''offénse''' - '''offénce
| |
| | |
| '''hénce
| |
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| '''scîence
| |
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| -shənss '''cónscience
| |
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| '''åudience
| |
| | |
| -âshence '''impâtience
| |
| | |
| cf. '''prevâil''' - '''prévalence
| |
| | |
| '''vîolence
| |
| | |
| '''përmanence
| |
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| '''adhêrence
| |
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| '''occúrrence
| |
| | |
| '''rêcúrrence
| |
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| '''ábsence
| |
| | |
| '''cómpetence
| |
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| '''séntence
| |
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| '''insístence
| |
| | |
| cf. '''stānce''' - '''exístence
| |
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| '''ínfluence
| |
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| ''mint'' '''mínts''' ≈ ''meat'' '''mínce
| |
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| ''print'' '''prínts''' ≈ ''royal'' '''prínce
| |
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| '''fìêrce
| |
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| '''pìêrce
| |
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| '''coërce
| |
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| '''enfŏrce
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| -'''êí'''- '''reinfŏrce
| |
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| '''divŏrce
| |
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| verbs -'''ésce
| |
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| -éss '''acquiésce
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| .*côwaléss '''coalésce
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| -éss '''effervésce
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| BrE -dyoôss or -joôss, AmE doôss -'''dûce
| |
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| '''redûce
| |
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| '''indûce
| |
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| ''verb'' '''prodûce
| |
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| ''noun'' '''próduce
| |
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| '''Jŏyce
| |
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| '''fâde
| |
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| '''shâde
| |
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| '''jâde
| |
| | |
| '''glâde
| |
| | |
| ''woman'' '''mâid''' = ''make'' '''mâde
| |
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| '''grenâde
| |
| | |
| sh-; AmE '''charâde''', BrE '''charàde
| |
| | |
| '''parâde
| |
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| '''concêde
| |
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| '''intercêde
| |
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| '''supersêde
| |
| | |
| stressed in verbs, unstressed in nouns, but always pronounced -'''îde
| |
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| '''régicide
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| '''sûicide
| |
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| '''cŷanide
| |
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| '''derîde
| |
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| '''asîde
| |
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| '''besîde
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| .*rizîde '''resîde
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| one word '''úpside
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| one word '''dòwnside
| |
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| '''provîde
| |
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| '''óxide
| |
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| in some names -'''forde
| |
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| íl- '''elûde
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| əl- '''allûde
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| '''lóngitude
| |
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| '''látitude
| |
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| '''áttitude
| |
| | |
| ''insect'' '''bêe
| |
| | |
| '''divorcêe
| |
| | |
| '''fêe
| |
| | |
| '''cóffee
| |
| | |
| '''banóffee
| |
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| '''tóffee
| |
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| '''Yánkee
| |
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| '''glêe
| |
| | |
| '''referêe
| |
| | |
| as a suffix meaning ‘without’ -frêe should be at least hyphenated, never a separate word:
| |
| '''cãrefrêe and commítment-frêe
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| '''degrêe
| |
| | |
| '''pédigree
| |
| | |
| '''sêe
| |
| | |
| .*lîcencêe '''licensêe
| |
| | |
| cf. '''députy''' - '''devotêe
| |
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| '''payêe
| |
| | |
| -'''êe''' has main stress when in contrast to '''emplŏyer''' - '''emplŏyêe
| |
| | |
| '''gáffe
| |
| | |
| '''lîfe
| |
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| .*nîfe '''knîfe
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| '''wîfe
| |
| | |
| '''âge
| |
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| mostly -íj -'''age
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| -íj '''cábbage
| |
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| -íj '''bándage
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| .*hémərij '''haémorrhage
| |
| | |
| .*fôlìíj '''fôlìage
| |
| | |
| .*cárríj '''cárriage
| |
| | |
| .*márríj '''márriage
| |
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| -àzh '''fûselage
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| -àzh '''cámouflage
| |
| | |
| -íj '''víllage
| |
| | |
| -àzh '''cóllage
| |
| | |
| -íj '''dámage
| |
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| -íj '''mánage
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| | |
| -àzh '''bádinage
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| | |
| BrE *gáràj; *gáríj is regarded by many as uneducated; AmE *gəràzh '''gáràge
| |
| | |
| -íj '''áverage
| |
| | |
| ''person'' '''Béveridge''' = -íj ''drink'' '''béverage
| |
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| -íj '''lêverage
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| -àzh '''míràge
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| -íj '''stŏrage
| |
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| BrE *báràj, AmE *bəràzh '''bárràge
| |
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| '''sâge
| |
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| BrE *məssàj, AmE *məssàzh '''mássàge
| |
| | |
| -íj '''méssage
| |
| | |
| -àzh '''dréssàge
| |
| | |
| -íj '''ûsage
| |
| | |
| -àzh '''sábotàge
| |
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| -íj '''cóttage
| |
| | |
| -íj '''wâstage
| |
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| -íj '''hóstage
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| -íj '''lánguage
| |
| | |
| -íj '''sávage
| |
| | |
| '''bádge
| |
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| '''édge
| |
| | |
| '''plédge
| |
| | |
| '''slédge
| |
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| -íj '''knówledge
| |
| | |
| '''mídge
| |
| | |
| '''rídge
| |
| | |
| '''brídge
| |
| | |
| '''pórridge
| |
| | |
| '''dódge
| |
| | |
| '''stódge
| |
| | |
| '''fúdge
| |
| | |
| '''sácrilege
| |
| | |
| '''prívilege
| |
| | |
| cf. '''édge''' - '''allége
| |
| | |
| '''oblîge
| |
| | |
| -êezh '''prestìge
| |
| | |
| -íj '''véstíge
| |
| | |
| '''chânge
| |
| | |
| '''whínge
| |
| | |
| '''lòunge
| |
| | |
| '''scròunge
| |
| | |
| '''Dôge
| |
| | |
| '''bàrge
| |
| | |
| '''làrge
| |
| | |
| '''dïrge
| |
| | |
| '''fŏrge
| |
| | |
| '''ürge
| |
| | |
| '''scöurge
| |
| | |
| '''pürge
| |
| | |
| '''sürge
| |
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| .*âke '''âche
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| BrE *məstàsh, AmE *mústásh '''moustāche
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| | |
| -kê '''synécdochê
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| cf. '''trôphy''', '''átrophy''' - '''catástrophê
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| '''apóstrophê
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| .*dhə before consonants, *dhê before vowels - '''thê
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| '''lôathe''' rhymes with '''clôthe
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| ''colour'' '''dŷe''' = ''death'' '''dîe
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| '''bïrdìê
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| '''Chàrly''' = '''Chàrlie
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| ''surname'' '''Wílley''' = '''Wílly''' = '''Wíllie
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| '''Cónnie
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| '''Lónnie
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| '''Rónnie
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| '''pîe
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| soft g - '''menágerìê
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| '''côterìê
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| '''cálorìê
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| '''éyrìê
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| '''bâke
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| '''câke
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| '''Jâke
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| cf. '''bláck, Bláck''' - '''Blâke
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| '''mâke
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| '''snâke
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| '''sâke
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| '''tâke
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| ''eat'' '''steâk''' = ''hold'' '''stâke
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| '''mistâke
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| '''lîke
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| '''chîldlîke
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| '''gódlîke
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| '''wårlîke
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| '''cátlîke
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| '''pîke
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| '''chôke
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| '''brôke
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| '''broòk''' rhymes with '''Ládbroke
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| '''broòk''' rhymes with '''Bólingbroke
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| '''evôke
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| '''provôke
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| '''wôke
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| '''rebûke
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| '''dûke
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| cf. ''noun, adjective'' '''fînal''' - ''noun'' '''finàlê
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| cf. ''adjective'' '''rátional''' - ''noun'' '''rationàle
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| cf. '''Âbel''', '''Bâbel''', ''''lâbel''', '''Mâbel''' - '''âble
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| '''impertürbable
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| '''applícable
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| dis- '''despícable
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| it is normal to retain an '''e''' before -'''able''' to show either the pronunciation of the preceding consonant or the long sound of the preceding vowel -'''eable
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| -nsəble '''pronòunceable
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| -jəble '''mánageable
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| -jəble '''chângeable
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| -kəble '''unshâkeable
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| -ləble '''sâleable
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| '''gâble
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| cf. '''lâbel''' - '''avâilable
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| '''unwínnable
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| '''ádmirable
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| '''desîrable
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| '''sâble
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| '''advîsable
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| '''tâble
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| '''debâtable
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| '''insurmòuntable
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| '''stâble
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| '''cònstable
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| '''forgívable
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| '''dábble
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| '''rábble
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| cf. '''rébel''' - '''pébble
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| '''dríbble
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| '''cóbble
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| '''góbble
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| '''hóbble
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| '''nóbble
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| '''wóbble
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| '''Húbble
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| '''rúbble
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| '''stúbble
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| '''édible
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| tánj- '''tángible
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| '''fállible
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| '''térrible
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| '''hórrible
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| '''comprehénsible
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| '''apprehénsible
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| '''sénsible
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| -sable is French - '''respónsible
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| axé- '''accéssible
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| '''colléctible
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| '''suscéptible
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| '''contémptible
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| '''irresístible
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| '''ámble
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| '''prê'''- '''preámble
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| '''gámble
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| '''rámble
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| '''scrámble
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| '''assémble
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| '''dissémble
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| .*rizémble '''resémble
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| .*onsómble '''ensemble
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| '''nímble
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| '''thímble
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| '''búmble
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| '''fúmble
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| '''húmble
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| '''júmble
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| '''múmble
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| '''rúmble
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| '''crúmble
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| '''grúmble
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| '''túmble
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| '''stúmble
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| '''nôble
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| '''doúble
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| AmE '''rûble''' = BrE '''roûble
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| '''troúble
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| '''pínnacle
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| '''bàrnacle
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| '''téntacle
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| '''óbstacle
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| .*vêícle '''vêhicle
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| '''véntricle
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| '''pàrticle
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| .*úngkəl '''úncle
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| '''càrbuncle
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| '''tréadle
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| '''crâdle
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| '''páddle
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| '''stráddle
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| '''ẁaddle
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| '''tẁaddle
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| ''médal'' '''medallion''' = ''interfere'' '''méddle
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| '''bicycle''' ''pédal'' = ''sell'' '''péddle
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| '''díddle
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| '''fíddle
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| '''míddle
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| '''píddle
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| '''ríddle
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| '''códdle
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| '''cúddle
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| '''fúddle
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| '''befúddle
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| '''húddle
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| '''múddle
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| '''cándle
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| '''dándle
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| '''hándle
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| '''spíndle
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| '''noôdle
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| '''poôdle
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| '''gïrdle
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| '''cürdle
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| '''hürdle
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| '''kerfúffle
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| '''trúffle
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| '''strúggle
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| '''invêigle
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| '''g''' sounded separately from '''ng''' -'''ngle
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| '''ángle
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| '''bángle
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| '''dángle
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| spángle
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| '''wrángle
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| '''wángle
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| '''bürgle
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| '''bûgle
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| '''bîle
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| BrE -'''île''', AmE -əl '''môbile
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| '''åutomobìle
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| '''fîle
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| BrE -'''île''', AmE -əl '''frágile
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| '''Ánglophîle
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| '''mîle
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| '''símilê
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| .*fáx-íməly '''facsímilê
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| '''smîle
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| '''pîle
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| '''rîle
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| BrE -'''île''', AmE -əl '''stérile
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| BrE -'''île''', AmE -əl ''prayers'' '''míssal''' = ''war'' '''míssile
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| '''tîle
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| BrE -'''île''', AmE -əl '''vólatile
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| '''mërcantîle
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| '''ínfantîle
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| BrE -'''île''', AmE -əl '''hóstile
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| .*gîle, hard '''g''' - '''guîle
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| '''revîle
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| '''táckle
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| '''héckle
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| '''fréckle
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| '''píckle
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| '''tíckle
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| '''cóckle
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| '''búckle
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| '''ánkle
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| '''tínkle
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| '''wrínkle
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| '''wínkle
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| ''food'' '''gríll''' = ''screen'' '''grílle
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| ''fire'' '''côal''' = ''person'' '''Côle
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| '''dôle
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| '''hôle
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| '''môle
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| ''ballot'' '''pôll''' = ''Poland'' '''Pôle''' = ''wood'' '''pôle
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| ''over, eat'' '''rôll''' = ''play'' '''rôle
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| '''partíciple
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| ''adjective, person'' '''príncipal''' = ''belief'' '''prínciple
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| '''discîple
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| '''sāmple
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| '''exāmple
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| '''dímple
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| '''símple
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| '''rúmple
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| '''crúmple
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| '''stêeple''' rhymes with '''pêople
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| '''nípple
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| '''rípple
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| '''típple
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| '''coúple
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| '''scrûple
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| '''vással''' and in AmE words in -'''āstle''' rhyme with '''hássle
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| -zle '''tòusle
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| ''person'' Súttle = ''obvious'' '''súbtle
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| '''chŏrtle
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| -səl -'''stle
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| '''cāstle
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| '''véssel''' rhymes with -'''éstle
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| '''néstle
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| '''tréstle
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| '''wréstle
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| '''whístle
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| '''grístle
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| '''Rússell''' rhymes with -'''ústle
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| '''bústle
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| '''hústle
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| '''rústle
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| '''líttle
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| '''cáttle
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| '''kéttle
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| ''gold'' métal = ''courage'' méttle
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| '''bóttle
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| '''súbtle''' rhymes with '''shúttle
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| -'''ûel''' rhymes with -'''ûle
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| '''módule
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| '''mûle
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| '''rûle
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| '''cápsule
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| '''dázzle
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| '''fízzle
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| cf. '''drível''' - '''drízzle
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| '''sízzle
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| '''púzzle
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| ''person'' '''Mêe''' = ''you''' '''mê
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| cf. '''âim - '''câme
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| '''gâme
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| '''lâme
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| '''sâme
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| '''frâme
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| '''tâme
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| '''extrême
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| '''dîme
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| .*rèzhìme '''regìme
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| '''lîme
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| ''verse'' '''rhŷme''' = ''frost'' '''rîme
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| '''tîme
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| '''íncòme
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| '''òutcòme
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| '''dôme
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| '''hôme
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| '''gênome
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| ''Alaska'' '''Nôme''' = ''garden'' '''gnôme
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| '''sòme
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| səm -'''some
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| '''troúblesome
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| '''hándsome
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| '''thrêesome
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| '''h'''- '''whôlesome
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| '''wínsome
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| cf. '''hysteréctomy''' - '''epítomê
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| .*rizyûme '''resûme
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| .*rézumây, written with French accents avoids confusion with '''resûme''': '''''résumé'''''
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| .*prizyûme '''presûme
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| -syû- '''consûme
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| -syû- '''assûme
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| ''frost'' '''rîme''' = ''verse'' '''rhŷme
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| ''fruit'' '''lîme''' = ''England'' '''Lŷme
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| '''énzŷme
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| '''bâne
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| ''persons'' '''Câin''' = '''Câine''' = ''stick'' '''câne
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| '''urbâne
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| '''Dâne
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| '''mêthane
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| '''Jâne
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| '''lâne
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| cf. '''remâin''' - ''relevant'' '''germâne
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| '''scêne
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| '''obscêne
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| '''gángrêne
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| -ône '''colôgne
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| -'''îgn''' rhymes with -'''îne
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| ''person'' '''Germâine
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| '''mìgrâine
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| '''Ukrâine
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| .*Mádlin or *Mádlən - '''Mádeleíne'''
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| '''refîne
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| '''confîne
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| '''éngíne
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| cf. '''hérôín''' ''drug'', '''hérôíne''' ''hero'' - '''méscalíne
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| '''declîne
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| '''reclîne
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| '''mîne
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| '''vërmín''' rhymes with '''ërmíne
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| '''detërmíne
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| '''sërpentîne
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| '''türpentîne
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| '''intéstíne
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| K- '''Chrístìne
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| '''prístìne
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| '''magazìne
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| ''win'' '''wòn''' = ''number'' '''òne
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| '''cône
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| cf. '''Stône of Scone''', *Scoôn - '''scóne
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| '''dòne
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| '''condône
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| '''góne
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| '''alône
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| '''anémonê
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| '''nòne
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| '''atône
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| '''stône
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| cf. '''Kíngston''', both have '''o''' as schwa - '''Mâidstone
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| '''zône
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| '''ãirbŏrne
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| '''o''' as schwa in best [[Australia|Aus]] pronunciation '''Mélbourne
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| '''Êastbŏurne
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| *dí-mâin '''demèsne
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| = -'''ô''', -'''ôw''' - -'''ôe
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| '''ôboe
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| '''dôe
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| '''fôe
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| -oô '''shoe
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| '''Jôe
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| -oô '''canoe
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| '''rôe
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| '''tôe
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| '''wôe
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| '''Zôê
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| '''grâpe
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| '''Penélopê
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| '''ántelôpe
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| or ón- '''énvelôpe
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| '''shãre
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| '''awãre
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| '''bewãre
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| '''prepãre
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| '''îronwãre
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| '''sóftwãre
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| -'''re''' as schwa - *âkər '''âcre
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| -'''re''' as schwa - -kər '''mássacre
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| ''ear'' '''hêar''' = ''this'' '''hêre
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| ''them'' '''théir''' = ''that'' '''thére
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| ''clothes'' '''wéãr''' = ''place'' '''whère
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| '''mêre
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| ''was'' '''wëre
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| '''sevêre
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| '''shîre
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| in England, schwa, -shə -'''shire
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| .*Glóstersher '''Glóucestershire
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| .*Léstersher '''Léicestershire
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| .*Wùstersher '''Worcestershire
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| -'''shîre''' in Scotland – though non-Scots may not comply '''Âyrshîre
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| '''hîre
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| '''mîre
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| AmE '''mêter''' = BrE ''length'' '''mêtre
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| cf. '''fŏr''' - '''befŏre
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| '''to the fŏre
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| '''thérefore
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| (and, for some, '''toûr''' ''guide'') ''rock'' '''tŏr''' = ''téar'' '''tŏre
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| '''bizàrre
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| cf. '''grándeûr''' - '''cûre
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| '''endûre
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| '''pāstûre
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| '''abjûre
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| -jər '''ínjure
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| -jər '''cònjure
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| '''përjure
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| '''lûre
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| -lyər '''fâilure
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| BrE əlyûə '''allûre
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| BrE '''Shåw''' = AmE '''sûre
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| -zhər -'''sure
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| '''pléasure
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| '''méasure
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| '''tréasure
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| '''léisure
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| '''clôsure
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| -sh- '''préssure
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| -sh- '''físsure
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| -chər -'''ture
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| '''matûre
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| '''nâture
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| '''státure
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| '''fûture
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| '''sûture
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| '''wê’re
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| ''of you'' '''yŏur''' = ''days'' '''yŏre''' = ''you are'' '''yŏu’re
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| ''here'' '''thére''' = ''them'' '''théir''' = ''they'' '''thèy’re
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| '''chêese''', '''slêaze''' and '''frêeze''' rhyme with '''êase
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| -ss '''lêase
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| '''êase''' rhymes with ''plea'' '''plêas''' = ''request'' '''plêase
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| -ss '''crêase
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| ''verb'', ''noun'' -ss '''decrêase
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| ''verb'', ''noun'' -ss '''incrêase
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| -z '''têase
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| '''âce''' rhymes with '''châse
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| ''confuse'' '''fâze''' = ''temporary'' '''phâse
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| -êez (no nationalities end in -ìse); usually stressed but can become unstressed before a noun as in '''Jápanese''': -'''êse
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| '''chêese
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| '''jöurnalêse
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| '''Nepalêse
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| '''Jápanêse
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| '''Chînêse
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| In all words apart from those specified below, -'''îse''' can be spelt -'''îze''', for example '''críticize''', and this is how -'''îse''' is pronounced in most verbs -'''îse
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| '''críticîse
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| pronounced but never spelt -ize ''noun, verb'' '''éxercîse
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| pronounced but never spelt -ize '''mërchandîse
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| pronounced but never spelt -ize '''fránchîse
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| '''vërbalîse
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| '''rêalise
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| '''êqualîse
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| -êez '''valìse
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| '''fërtilîse
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| never spelt -ize because it is a noun and pronounced -íss '''prémíse
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| never spelt -ize because pronounced -íss ''noun, verb'' '''prómíse
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| pronounced but never spelt -ize '''cómpromîse
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| pronounced but never spelt -ize '''surmîse
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| .*pŏrpus '''pŏrpoise
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| .*tŏrtus '''tŏrtoise
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| pronounced but never spelt -ize '''despîse
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| '''glámorise
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| pronounced but never spelt -ize '''comprîse
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| pronounced but never spelt -ize '''surprîse
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| presh- '''pressurîse
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| '''émphasîse
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| '''práctíce''' = ''BrE verb'' '''práctíse
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| '''áppetîse
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| pronounced but never spelt -ize '''ádvertîse
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| .*éxpertêez '''expertìse
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| silent '''u'''; pronounced but never spelt -ize '''disguîse
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| pronounced but never spelt -ize '''advîse
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| cf. ''noun'' '''devîce''' - -z ''verb'' '''devîse
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| pronounced but never spelt *wîze '''wîse
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| pronounced but never spelt -wize -'''wîse
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| pronounced but never spelt -ize '''lîkewîse
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| pronounced but never spelt -ize '''clóckwîse
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| -ss, as also '''hénce''', '''fénce''' - '''dénse
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| '''sénse
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| '''nónsense
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| cf. '''defénce''', '''lîcence''', '''offénce''' where AmE has -'''ense''', all -ss '''suspénse
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| cf. '''dôze''' -ss '''dôse
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| -z '''chôse
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| '''grandiôse
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| .*loôze '''lose
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| ''noun, adjective'' -s, ''verb'' -z '''clôse
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| -z '''nôse
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| -z '''choôse
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| .*lûce '''loôse
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| -z '''expôse
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| can have French accent: '''''exposé''''' *expôzây '''expôsè
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| -z '''rôse
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| '''ápse
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| '''lápse
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| ''noun'' '''rêlapse
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| ''verb'' '''relápse
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| '''collápse
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| '''trâipse
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| '''eclípse
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| ''cop'' '''cóps''' = ''wood'' '''cópse
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| '''hëarse
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| cf. '''revërse''' - '''rehëarse
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| '''tërse
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| '''vërse
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| '''avërse
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| '''ádverse
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| cf. '''rehëarse''' - '''revërse
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| '''gŏrse
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| ''voice'' '''hŏarse''' = ''animal'' '''hŏrse
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| '''wörse
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| '''bŏurse
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| ''vulgar'' '''cŏarse''' = ''run'' '''cŏurse
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| -z '''ûse
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| ''no!'' -z '''refûse
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| ''rubbish'' -ss '''réfuse
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| -z '''mûse
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| -ss '''spòuse
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| -îze '''ánalyse
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| -îze '''páralyse
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| ''lure'' '''bâit''' = ''anger, breath'' '''bâte
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| '''debâte
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| '''rêbâte
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| -âte ''verb'', -ət ''noun'' '''prédicate
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| '''índicâte
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| '''víndicâte
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| -ət '''certíficate
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| BrE -ət, AmE -'''âte''' - '''cándidate
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| '''fâte
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| '''hâte
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| '''lâte
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| -'''âte''' ''verb'', -ət ''adjective'' '''artículate
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| '''régulâte
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| '''mâte
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| -ít or -ət '''clîmate
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| -'''âte''' ''verb'', -ət ''adjective'' '''éstimate
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| ''person'' '''Spèight''' = ''rush'' '''spâte
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| '''séparate
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| -rət '''dísparate
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| -âte ''verb'', -ət ''adjective'' '''delíberate
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| cf. '''ônerous''' - '''exónerâte
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| -rət '''désperate
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| '''émigrate
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| '''ímmigrate
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| -âte ''verb'', -ət ''adjective'' '''eláborate
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| máj- '''mágistrâte
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| '''démonstrâte
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| '''rémonstrâte
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| -âte ''verb'', -ət ''adjective'' '''precípitate
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| '''áctivâte
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| '''effête
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| '''complête
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| .*sôshalîte '''sôcialîte
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| '''elìte
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| '''polîte
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| '''gráníte
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| '''fînîte
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| .*définət '''définite
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| .*ínfinət '''ínfinite
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| '''unîte
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| '''despîte
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| AmE '''réspíte''' - '''réspîte
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| '''hýpocríte
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| AmE -'''or'''-; BrE '''fâvouríte
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| '''Trótskyîte
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| can be written 'Brontë' - '''Bróntê
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| '''ánecdote
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| '''ántidote
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| '''môte
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| '''nôte
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| '''vôte
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| '''fŏrtè
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| '''càste
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| '''hâste
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| '''châste
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| usually stressed -ét -'''étte
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| oô- '''oubliétte
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| '''serviétte
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| ''matress'' '''pállet''' = ''paint'' '''pálette
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| cf. '''hámlet''' - *ómlet '''ómelette
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| '''kitchenétte
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| '''tríbûte
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| '''cóntríbûte
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| '''dístríbûte
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| ''noun'' '''áttribûte
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| ''verb'' '''attríbute
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| .*mínít ''time'' '''mínute
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| .*mŷ-neŵt ''small'' '''minûte
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| '''repûte
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| '''compûte
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| cf. '''ínput''' - '''impûte
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| '''bŷte
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| '''nêophŷte
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| mostly silent -'''ue
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| '''bàrbecûe
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| '''âgûe
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| .*lêag '''lêague
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| ''persons'' '''Hãig''' = '''Hâigh''' = ''city, person'' '''Hâgue
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| .*plâig '''plâgue
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| .*Pràg '''Pràgue
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| .*sâygwây '''sèguè
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| -êeg ''noun'' '''íntrigue
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| -êeg ''verb'' '''intrìgue
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| -êeg '''fatìgue
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| .*meráng '''meringue
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| .*túng '''tòngue
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| -góg: all these words may, and in most cases [[British and American English|must]] lose the final '''ue''' in [[American English]] -'''gógue
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| -óg '''sýnagogue
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| -óg '''dîalogue
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| '''àrgûe
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| ''blow'' '''bleŵ''' = ''colour'' '''blûe
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| '''clûe
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| '''glûe
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| final '''que''' is silent: many words end like this, but not '''bàrbecûe''' - '''que
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| -àk '''pláque
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| -âik '''opâque
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| .*Môzám-bêek '''Mozambìque
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| cf. '''reálpolitìk''' - '''critìque
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| -ésk '''burlésque
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| -ésk '''Pinterésque
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| -ésk '''picturésque
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| -ósk '''mósque
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| cf. '''brísk''' -oòsk '''brùsque
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| ''Susan'' '''Sûe''' = ''law'' '''sûe
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| .*insyû '''ensûe
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| -syû '''pursûe
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| .*íshû '''íssue
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| .*tíshû '''tíssue
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| '''câve
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| '''Dâve
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| '''gâve
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| '''háve
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| '''cónclâve
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| '''pâve
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| '''râve
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| '''crâve
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| ''serious, dead'' '''grâve
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| ''accent'' '''gràve
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| sw- '''suàve
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| '''êve
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| '''slêeve
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| '''belìêve
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| '''relìêve
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| '''grìêve
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| '''síeve
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| '''sémibrêve
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| '''côërcíve
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| '''dîve
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| '''éndíve
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| '''recêive
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| '''concêive
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| '''fîve
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| cf. '''jîve''' ''dance'' - hard '''g''' in ''take'' '''gíve
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| '''hîve
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| '''líve
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| '''alîve
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| '''derîve
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| '''arrîve
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| '''contrîve
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| '''persuâsíve
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| '''adhêsíve
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| '''defénsíve
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| '''offénsíve
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| '''crêâtíve
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| '''tålkatíve
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| '''imáginatíve
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| '''sénsitíve
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| '''repétitíve
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| '''môtíve
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| '''revîve
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| '''abòve
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| ''bird'' '''dòve
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| (BrE is regular '''dîved''') AmE ''dive'' '''dôve
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| ''England'' '''Hôve''' = ''heave'' '''hôve
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| '''shòve
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| '''lòve
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| '''glòve
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| .*moôve '''move
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| '''groôve
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| '''rôve
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| '''grôve
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| '''stôve
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| '''trôve
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| '''strôve
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| '''nërve
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| '''sërve
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| .*prizërv '''presërve
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| '''Î’ve
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| '''wê’ve
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| '''yoû’ve
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| '''thèy’ve
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| '''Zimbàbwè
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| '''Lilóngwè
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| AmE '''áx''' - BrE '''áxe
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| '''yê
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| ''me'' '''Î''' = ''sight'' '''eŷe
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| ''pig, eye'' '''stŷ''' = ''eye'' '''stŷe
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| '''plêase''' and '''frêeze''' rhyme with '''slêaze
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| ''period'' '''phâse''' = ''confuse'' '''fâze
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| '''gâze
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| '''ádze
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| ''free'' '''frêes''' = ''cold'' '''frêeze
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| '''trapêze
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| most words in -'''îse''' can also be spelt -'''îze''': all exceptions are listed under -'''îse'''. -'''îze
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| never -ise '''sêize
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| ''apart'' '''prîse''' = ''present'' '''prîze
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| never -ise '''sîze
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| '''dôze
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| '''búlldoze
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| '''Drûze
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| both pronounced -îze BrE '''ánalŷse''', AmE '''ánalŷze
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| both pronounced -îze BrE '''páralŷse''', AmE '''páralŷze
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| ===F===
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| '''chìêf
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| '''míschíef
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| '''thìêf
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| '''belìêf
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| '''relìêf
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| '''stāff
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| '''whíff
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| '''táriff
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| '''óff
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| '''féoff
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| '''Géoff
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| '''blúff
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| '''stúff
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| '''íf
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| '''sérif
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| cf. ''reason'' '''môtíve''' - *mô-têef ''pattern'' '''môtìf
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| '''Álf
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| .*cāf '''cālf
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| .*hāf '''hālf
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| one word '''himsélf
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| one word '''hersélf
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| one word '''yoursélf
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| one word '''itsélf
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| one word '''mŷsélf
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| '''gôlf
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| '''Rôlph''' = '''Rôlf
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| .*wùlf '''wolf
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| '''gúlf
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| '''Bêowùlf
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| No expressions with [[modal verbs]] followed by ‘of’ exist. What may sound like ‘of’ is the weak form of '''háve''' and so this or apostrophes should be written instead: '''woùld have''', '''shoùld’ve''', '''cān’t have''', '''mîght’ve''' etc. - *óv '''óf
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| '''goôf
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| cf. ''plural'' '''hoôves''' - '''hoôf
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| cf. ''plural'' '''roôfs''' *roôves '''roôf
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| ===G===
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| '''fág
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| '''hág
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| '''nág
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| '''drág
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| '''ság
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| '''lég
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| '''pég
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| '''égg
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| '''díg
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| '''jíg
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| '''píg
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| '''ríg
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| '''wíg
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| '''sáng
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| '''âgeing
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| cf. ''sing'' '''sínging''' - -j- ''singe'' '''síngeing'''
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| .*âking '''âcheing'''
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| '''mâking'''
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| ''snooker, drama'' '''cûeing''' = ''line'' '''queûeing'''
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| '''rûeing'''
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| '''brínging'''
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| cf. ''singe'' '''síngeing''' -j- - ''sing'' '''sínging'''
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| '''thíng'''
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| often mispronounced 'Beizhing': '''Bèijíng'''
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| AmE '''lâbeling
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| '''fîling
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| BrE '''lâbelling
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| '''fílling
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| '''dúmpling
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| '''êvening
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| '''mîning
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| '''exámining
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| ''sound'' '''bŏing
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| .*dûíng '''doing
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| '''gôing
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| tûí- '''toíng and frôíng
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| ''bell, round'' '''ríng
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| '''bríng
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| ''squeeze'' '''wríng
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| '''síng
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| cf. râcing - '''râising
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| '''tàrgeting
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| '''intërpreting
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| '''bétting
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| '''gétting
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| '''forgétting
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| '''accrûing
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| '''flôwing
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| '''lápwing
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| '''léft-wíng
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| '''rîght-wíng
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| '''lóng
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| '''sóng
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| '''dúng
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| '''lúng
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| '''súng
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| '''bóg
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| '''dóg
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| '''hóg
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| '''lóg
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| cf. '''Jôe Blóggs''' - '''blóg
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| '''Stríndbërg
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| '''îcebërg
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|
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|
| .*Hŷdlebërg '''Heîdelbërg | | :Worcester (*Wùster), Boleýn, to (=toô) impûgn. |
| | Sây ín sòunds corréct and stërling |
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| '''Bŏrg | | Hëarse, hêar, heàrken, yêar and yëarling ''—yëar and yêarling are about as likely'' |
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| '''Mágdebürg
| | Êvil, dévil, mézzotínt, |
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| '''Lúxemböurg
| | :Mînd the Z (zéd)! (A géntle hínt.) |
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| .*Shãrebŏrg '''Chérbourg
| | Nòw yoû nêed nót pây atténtion |
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| .*Strázbërg '''Strásböurg
| | To (=toô) súch sòunds as Î dôn't méntion, |
| | :Sòunds lîke pŏres, påuse, pŏurs and påws, |
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| | :Rhŷming wíth the prônòun yŏurs; |
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| '''búg
| | Nŏr are próper nâmes inclûded, |
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| '''dúg | | Thôugh Î óften hëard, as yoû díd, |
| | :Fúnny rhŷmes to ûnicŏrn, |
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| | :Yés, yoû knôw them, Våughan and Stråchan —''nowadays regularised to *Strákhən |
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| '''thúg
| | Nô, mŷ mâiden, cŏy and còmely, |
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| '''slúg | | Î dôn't ẁant to spêak of Chòlmondeley (*Chúmley). |
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| '''túg
| | :Nô. Yét Froûde compãred wíth pròud |
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| ===H===
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| silent after a vowel, combines to form consonant sounds with preceding consonant -'''h
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| can be several '''à'''’s: '''àh
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| mostly schwa -'''ah
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| cf. '''Marìa''' - '''Marîah
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| '''parîah
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| '''blàh
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| '''ayatóllah
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| '''Gôa''' rhymes with '''Nôah
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| '''hurràh
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| '''Ûtàh
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| '''êach
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| '''blêach
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| '''pêach
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| '''impêach
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| '''rêach
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| AmE *spínních; BrE *spínnídge '''spínach
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| ''sand'' '''bêach''' = ''tree'' '''bêech
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| '''besêech
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| .*ték: abbreviation of '''téchnical'''; also '''hî-téch''' - '''téch
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| '''whích
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| -k '''Zûrich
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| cf. same sound in '''Åldwých''' -'''wích
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| and '''S'''- ''town''; AmE -'''ch'''; BrE -dge '''sándwich
| | :Ís nô bétter thán McLeod (*McClòud). |
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| .*Woòlidge '''Woòlwich
| | But mînd trívial and vîal, |
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| .*Brómmidge '''Brómwich | | Trîpod, mênial, denîal, |
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| | :Trôll and trólley, réalm and rêam, |
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| | :Schédule, míschief, schísm, and schême. |
| | Àrgil, gíll, Argŷll, gíll. Sůrely |
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| .*Grénnidge '''Gréenwich
| | Mây bê mâde to rhŷme wíth Råleigh, |
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| | :Bút yŏu're nót suppôsed to sây |
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| .*Hárrídge '''Hárwich | | :Pìquèt rhŷmes wíth sóbriquèt. |
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| .*Nórrídge, rhyming with '''pórridge''' - though some say -rích '''Nórwich
| | Hád thís ínvalid inválid |
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| -wích '''Ípswich
| | Wörthless dócuments? Hòw pállid, |
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| -wích '''Drŏitwich
| | :Hòw uncoûth hê, còuchant, loòked, |
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| -wích '''Nántwich
| | :Whén for Pŏrtsmouth Î had boòked! |
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| '''squélch
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| ''Wales'' '''Wélsh''' = ''person'' '''Wélch'''
| |
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| '''fílch
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| '''zílch
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| '''drénch
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| '''sténch
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| '''wénch
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| '''ínch
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| '''wínch
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| '''cónch
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| '''búnch
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| '''húnch
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| '''púnch
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| '''lýnch -ch
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| cf. ''easy'' '''sínch''', '''ch''' sound; ''down, wash'' sínk = ''together'' '''sýnch
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| -dóck '''Mürdoch
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| '''smoôch
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| '''àrch
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| '''sëarch
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| '''làrch
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| -k '''pâtriàrch
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| BrE -ək '''mónarch
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| '''kítsch
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| '''pùtsch
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| '''bátch
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| '''cátch
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| '''hátch
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| '''nátch
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| '''ẁatch
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| '''étch
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| '''fétch
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| '''kétch
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| '''ítch
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| '''dítch
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| '''hítch
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| '''glítch
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| '''pítch
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| '''stítch
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| cf. '''Åldwých''' - ''what'' '''whích''' BrE = ''wizard'' '''wítch
| |
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| '''twítch
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| '''bótch
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| '''hótchpotch
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| '''Dútch
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| '''múch
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| -k '''eûnuch
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| '''còuch
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| '''gròuch
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| '''toúch
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| '''vòuch
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| '''súch
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| cf. place names in -'''wích''' - '''Åldwých
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| -d '''Rìyadh
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| ''ð'' '''éth''' or '''édh
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| *ây '''èh
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| mostly silent -'''gh
| |
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| ''no'' '''nây''' = ''horse'' '''nèigh
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| ''kill'' '''slây''' = ''ride'' '''slèigh
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| cf. '''convèy''', '''purvèy''' - '''invèigh
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| ''how'' '''wây''' = ''heavy'' '''wèigh
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| ''greeting'' '''hî''' = ''up'' '''hîgh
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| cf. voiced '''th''' in '''thŷ''': vowel sound identical - unvoiced '''th''' in '''thîgh
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| .''person'' '''[[Aneurin Bevan|Nŷe]]''' = ''near'' '''nîgh
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| .*sŷe '''sîgh
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| .*Éddinbrə '''Édinburgh
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| .*Frâzerbrə '''Frâserburgh
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| .*Pítsbürg '''Píttsburgh
| | Zeûs, Thêbes, Thales, Aphrodîtê, |
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| BrE *làf AmE *láf '''lāugh
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| -òw '''bòugh
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| -ô '''thôugh
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| -ôw '''fûrlôugh
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| .*slòu - ''England'' '''Slòugh''' = ''swamp'' '''slòugh
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| .*slúff ''skin'' '''sloúgh
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| .*rúff '''roúgh
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| -û - ''throw'' '''threŵ''' = ''preposition'' '''throûgh
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| AmE = '''búrrow''' ''ground'' - BrE *búrrə '''bòrough
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| .*Lúfbrə '''Loúghborough
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| .*Scàrbrə '''Scàrborough
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| .*Míddlzbrə '''Míddlesborough
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| BrE *thúrrə, AmE *thúrrôw '''thòrough
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| -óff '''trôugh
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| -úff '''toúgh
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| -úff '''enoúgh
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| letter '''Ô''' = exclamation '''ôh
| |
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| -f -'''ph
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| '''Rálph
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| '''oòmph
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| '''trîumph
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| '''lýmph
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| '''nýmph
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| '''mŏrph
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| '''glýph
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| AmE -'''r''', BrE silent -'''rrh
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| '''catàrrh
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| '''mÿrrh
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| '''ásh
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| '''básh
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| '''cásh
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| '''dásh
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| '''gásh
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| '''hásh
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| '''flásh
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| '''slásh
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| '''smásh
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| '''rásh
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| '''crásh
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| '''thrásh
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| '''stásh
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| '''qùash
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| '''ẁash
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| '''Bangladésh
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| '''mésh
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| '''frésh
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| '''thrésh
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| '''réddish
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| '''chîldish
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| '''bánish
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| '''Spánish
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| '''vánish
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| ''end'' fínish = ''Finland'' Fínnish
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| '''astónish
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| '''gàrnish
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| '''tàrnish
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| '''vàrnish
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| '''Cŏrnish
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| '''bürnish
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| '''fürnish
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| '''púnish
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| '''wísh
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| '''fíftyish
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| ''person'' '''Wålsh
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| -sh - ''person'' '''Wélch''' = ''Wales'' '''Wélsh
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| '''cósh
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| '''dósh
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| '''nósh
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| '''whoòsh
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| '''pósh
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| '''tósh
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| '''bùsh
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| '''lúsh
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| '''blúsh
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| '''flúsh
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| '''plúsh
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| '''pùsh
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| '''rúsh
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| '''thrúsh
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| mostly unvoiced -'''th
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| '''déath
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| '''hêath
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| '''bréath
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| '''wrêath
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| '''ôath
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| '''pāth
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| -drət + unvoiced '''th''' - '''húndredth
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| '''shibbóleth
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| voiced '''th''' - '''wíth
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| '''héalth
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| '''stéalth
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| '''wéalth
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| '''plínth
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| '''nînth
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| '''bôth
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| '''dòth
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| '''lôth
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| '''slôth
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| '''ëarth
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| '''dëarth
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| '''heàrth
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| '''bïrth
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| '''gïrth
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| '''héncefŏrth
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| '''Fïrth of Fŏrth
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| '''gô fŏrth
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| '''nŏrth
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| '''wörth
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| ''4th'' '''fŏurth
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| ''noun'' '''th''' unvoiced, ''verb'' '''th''' voiced '''mòuth
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| '''ou''' as schwa, '''th''' unvoiced -'''mouth
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| -məth '''Bŏurnemouth
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| -məth '''Pŏrtsmouth
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| -məth '''Plýmouth
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| '''síxth
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| voiced '''th''' - ''casual'' '''blîthe''' = ''persons'' '''Blŷthe''' = '''Blŷth
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| voiced '''th''' - ''persons'' '''Smŷthe''' = '''Smŷth
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| [[schwa]]: BrE '''er''' = AmE '''uh
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| ===I===
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| -'''î''' or -'''ì
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| '''Dubaî
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| '''h''' sounded '''Shanghaî
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| '''Ábu Dhàbì
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| '''rábbî
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| '''álibî
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| '''Sàùdì
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| likewise other plurals of -'''us''' - '''nûclêî
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| '''Hawàìì
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| '''Isrâeli
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| '''Disrâeli
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| .*sémmy '''sémi
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| ''eat'' '''pîe''' = ''number'' '''pî
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| girls’ names tend to end in -'''i''' or -'''ie''', boys’ in -'''y''' - '''Térrì
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| .*paparatsy - '''paparázzi
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| ===J===
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| -zh '''Ràj
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| -zh ''Mahal'' '''Tàj
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| -dj '''hàjj
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| ===K===
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| -'''que''' = -'''k
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| ''vegetable'' '''lêek''' = ''liquid'' '''lêak
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| '''blêak
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| '''spêak
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| ''car'' '''brâke''' = ''pieces'' '''breâk
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| '''strêak
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| '''têak
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| ''money, wood'' '''stâke''' = ''meat'' '''steâk
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| ''days'' '''wêek''' = ''feeble'' '''wêak
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| '''flák
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| '''ánorák
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| '''háck
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| '''sáck
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| '''déck
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| '''líck
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| '''gímmick
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| '''hŏick
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| '''bríck
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| '''síck
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| '''tíck
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| '''Pàrtick
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| cf. '''Éric''' - '''Pátrick
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| '''Bûíck
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| '''quíck
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| '''wíck
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| .*Wórrick '''Ẁarwick
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| .*Bérrick '''Bérwick
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| '''w''' sounded in '''Lërwick
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| .*Kézzíck '''Késwick
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| .*Smédhík (voiced '''th''' sound) '''Sméthwick
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| cf. '''Bangkók''' - '''cóck
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| '''dóck
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| '''lóck
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| '''wédlock
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| '''flóck
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| '''wårlock
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| .*nóck '''knóck
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| '''sóck
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| '''dúck
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| '''lúck
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| ''liquid'' '''lêak''' = ''vegetable'' '''lêek
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| '''mêek
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| '''rêek
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| '''sêek
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| ''feeble'' '''wêak''' = ''days'' '''wêek
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| trék
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| cf. '''sqwåwk''' - -åwk -'''ålk
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| or '''båulk''' - -åwk '''bålk
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| -åwk '''chålk
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| cf. ''talcum powder'' '''tálc''', '''l''' sounded - -åwk ''speak'' '''tålk
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| -åwk ''bird'' '''stŏrk''' BrE = ''plant, follow'' '''stålk
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| -åwk '''wålk
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| '''whélk
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| .*fôk '''fôlk
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| -fək '''Nŏrfolk
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| -fək '''Súffolk
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| ''ox'' '''yôke''' = ''egg'' '''yôlk
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| '''bánk
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| '''sánk
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| '''tánk
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| '''thánk
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| '''dránk
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| ''person'' '''Fránk''' = ''honest'' '''fránk
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| '''thínk
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| '''rínk
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| '''drínk
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| '''shrínk
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| '''sínk
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| '''hónk
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| '''plónk
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| '''mònk
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| '''hónky-tónk
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| '''dúnk
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| '''fúnk
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| '''Bángkók
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| '''noòk
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| '''spoôk
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| '''roòk
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| '''broòk
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| '''wók
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| '''pàrk
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| '''jërk
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| '''bersërk
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| '''smïrk
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| '''shïrk
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| '''kïrk
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| '''quïrk
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| '''wörk
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| '''lürk
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| '''Türk
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| '''āsk
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| '''bāsk
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| '''flāsk
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| '''tāsk
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| '''désk
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| ''record'' '''dísc''' = ''computer'' '''dísk
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| '''whísk
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| '''óbelisk
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| '''rísk
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| '''ásterisk
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| '''dúsk
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| '''músk
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| '''túsk
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| '''åuk
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| '''squåwk
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| ===L===
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| '''lógical
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| '''mýthical
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| '''puritánical
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| '''histórical
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| '''hystérical
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| '''thê'''- '''theátrical
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| '''mûsical
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| '''práctical
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| '''scéptical
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| '''mýstical
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| '''nåutical
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| '''quízzical
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| '''fôcal
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| '''lôcal
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| '''vôcal
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| ''interfere'' '''méddle''' = ''coin'' '''médal
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| ''sell'' '''péddle''' = ''bicycle'' '''pédal
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| rhyming with '''cándle''', '''hándle''' - '''scándal
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| rhyming with above '''sándal
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| '''concêal
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| '''repêal
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| '''squêal
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| '''vêal
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| '''revêal
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| '''lêgal
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| '''illêgal
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| '''rêgal
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| '''Bengål
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| .*commërshal '''commërcial
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| '''denîal
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| '''mênial
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| .*pàrshal '''pàrtial
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| '''ânal
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| AmE '''bânal''' - BrE '''banàl
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| '''canál
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| '''phenómenal
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| '''diágonal
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| '''hexágonal
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| -shənəl -'''tional
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| '''nátional
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| '''rátional
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| '''nôtional
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| '''hôle''' rhymes with '''gôal
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| '''shôal
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| cf. ''main, headteacher'' '''prínciple''' - ''basic, credo'' '''príncipal
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| '''quadriláteral
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| '''âmóral
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| '''immóral
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| -zəl '''apprâisal
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| cf. '''véssel''' - '''hássle''' rhymes with '''vással
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| '''ántênâtal
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| '''pôstnâtal
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| ''quality'' '''méttle''' = ''iron'' '''métal
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| .*péttle '''pétal
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| AmE '''inståll''' - BrE '''instål
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| -zhəl '''cásual
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| -kchəl '''áctual
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| '''evéntual
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| ''belly-button'' '''nâvel''' = ''ship'' '''nâval
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| cf. '''êvil''' - *medêvəl or '''medìêval
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| *Mŷcle '''Mîchael
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| '''Ráphâél
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| a common mistake is to write 'Isreal' - '''Ísrâel
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| = ''capable'' '''âble''', cf. '''tâble, stâble''' - ''person'' '''Âbel
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| cf. '''bábble''' - '''Bâbel
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| '''lâbel
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| '''Mâbel
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| ''noun'' '''rébel
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| ''verb'' '''rebél
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| '''excél
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| '''módel
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| '''yôdel
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| '''êel
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| '''fêel
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| '''pêel
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| '''fálafel
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| ''air'' '''ãerial''' = ''person'' '''Ãriel
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| '''Mûriel
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| cf. '''lôcal, vôcal''' - '''yokel
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| cf. '''përsonal''' - '''personnél
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| '''repél
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| '''compél
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| '''dispél
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| '''expél
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| '''appárel
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| '''cóckerel
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| '''bárrel
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| '''mínstrel
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| '''wâstrel
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| '''êasel
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| '''wêasel
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| words in -'''éstle''' rhyme with '''véssel
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| '''hô'''- '''hotél
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| cf. '''módel''' - '''mô'''- '''motél
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| '''cartél
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| -'''ûle''' rhymes with -'''ûel
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| ''two'' '''dûal''' = ''fight'' '''dûel
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| '''fûel
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| '''crûel
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| '''grûel
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| ''navy'' '''nâval''' = ''stomach'' '''nâvel
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| '''Ravél
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| '''unrável
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| '''trável
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| cf. '''drízzle''' - '''drível
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| '''swível
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| '''hóvel
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| '''shòvel
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| '''nóvel
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| '''bòwel
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| '''tròwel
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| '''tòwel
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| '''vòwel
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| '''píxel
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| '''TÉFL
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| '''fâil
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| '''avâil
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| '''prevâil
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| '''vèil
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| AmE '''fulfíll''', BrE '''fulfíl
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| '''níl
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| '''fŏil
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| '''êvil
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| '''dévil
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| '''Brazíl
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| '''åll
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| '''båll
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| '''cåll
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| '''fåll
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| '''tåll
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| '''wåll
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| '''béll
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| '''déll
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| '''féll
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| '''héll
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| '''nútshell
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| '''péll-méll
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| '''séll
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| '''téll
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| '''quéll
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| '''wéll
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| '''fíll
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| '''píll
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| '''tíll
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| '''quíll
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| '''dóll
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| cf. ''parrot'' '''póll''', ''elect'' '''pôll
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| ''part'' '''rôle''' = ''along'' '''rôll
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| '''drôll
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| '''strôll
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| '''tôll
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| '''bùll
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| '''cúll
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| '''dúll
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| but the suffix is -'''fùl''' - '''fùll
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| ''city'' '''Húll''' = ''boat'' '''húll
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| '''lúll
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| ''island'' '''Múll''' = ''over'' '''múll'''
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| ''and void'' '''núll
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| '''anúll
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| '''pùll
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| '''hê’ll
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| '''shê’ll
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| '''wê’ll
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| '''Î’ll
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| '''ít’ll
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| '''yoû’ll''' or '''yoù’ll''' or '''yŏu’ll
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| '''thèy’ll
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| '''prôtocol
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| '''álcohol
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| '''coôl
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| '''foôl
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| .*skoôl '''schoôl
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| '''poôl
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| '''spoôl
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| '''toôl
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| '''woòl
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| AmE '''enróll''', BrE '''enrôl
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| '''patrôl
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| '''pétrol
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| cf. '''rôll''' - '''contrôl
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| '''párasól
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| -təl '''pístol
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| '''gïrl
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| '''whïrl
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| '''twïrl
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| '''whŏrl
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| '''fürl
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| '''Gåul
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| '''måul
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| '''Påul
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| '''Såul '''cáterwåul
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| cf. ''word'' '''fùll''' ''suffix'' -'''fùl
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| '''hôpeful
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| '''cãreful
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| '''beaûtiful
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| '''dûtiful
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| ''noun'' '''spoônful
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| '''wònderful
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| '''stréssful
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| '''àrtful
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| '''jŏyful
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| ''bird'' '''fòwl''' = ''bad'' '''fòul
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| '''ghoûl
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| ''only'' '''sôle''' = ''Korea'' '''Seôul''' = ''spirit'' '''sôul
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| '''åwl
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| '''båwl
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| '''cråwl
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| ''all meanings'' '''bôwl
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| ''bird'' '''fòwl
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| '''hòwl
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| '''y''' as schwa - '''Síbyl
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| '''y''' as schwa - '''Béryl
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| ===M===
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| '''glêam
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| '''rêam
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| '''drêam
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| ''appear'' '''sêem''' = ''thread, coal'' '''sêam
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| '''stêam
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| '''scrêam
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| '''drêam
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| '''strêam
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| '''hám
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| BrE '''h''' silent, '''a''' as schwa, -əm; AmE -'''hám
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| '''h''' silent, '''g''' not sounded separately '''Búckingham
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| '''h''' silent, '''g''' not sounded separately '''Bïrmingham
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| -nəm '''Twíckenham
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| -nəm '''Chéltenham
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| .*Tótnəm '''Tóttenham
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| .*Méppəm '''Méopham
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| -səm '''Tópsham
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| -təm '''Stréatham
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| -təm '''Chátham
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| -təm '''Éltham
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| -təm '''Wåltham
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| unvoiced '''th''' sound '''Bôtham
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| unvoiced '''th''' sound '''Gótham
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| .*Rûtəm '''Wrotham
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| '''Wést Hám
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| '''môdém
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| '''dêem
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| ''group'' '''têam''' = ''pour'' '''têem
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| '''hém
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| '''ahém
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| '''Béthlehém
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| sounding like -um '''thêorem
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| '''stém
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| -ám '''dîaphragm
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| .*flém '''phlégm
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| -îm '''páradigm
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| '''rhýthm
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| '''âim
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| '''mâim
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| '''dím
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| '''dénim''' rhymes with '''Blénheim
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| '''whím
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| '''Kím
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| '''skím
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| '''dénim
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| '''mínim
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| BrE and AmE -àm '''bàlm
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| BrE and AmE -àm '''càlm
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| BrE and AmE -àm '''quàlm
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| '''tálcum''' rhymes with *Málcum '''Málcolm
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| ''dwell'' '''hôme''' = ''oak, islet'' '''hôlm
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| '''frêedom
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| '''bŏredom
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| '''kíngdom
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| '''slàlom
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| '''Tóm
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| '''árm
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| '''fàrm
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| '''hàrm
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| cf. '''wörm, wårn''' - '''wårm
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| pák- '''páchydërm
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| j- '''gërm
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| '''spërm
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| '''tërm
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| '''fïrm
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| '''fŏrm
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| '''nŏrm
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| cf. ''heat'' '''wårm''' - ''animal'' '''wörm
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| '''ŏrgasm
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| .*kázəm '''chásm
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| -zəm '''spásm
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| -ízəm; never stressed -'''ísm
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| '''âthêísm
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| '''Bùddhism
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| '''existéntialism
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| shôv- '''chauvinism
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| '''térrorism
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| '''mîcrocosm
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| '''tálcum
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| '''memorándum
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| '''referéndum
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| '''glúm
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| '''húm
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| '''válium
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| '''thállium
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| '''gerânium
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| '''aquãrium
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| '''delírium
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| '''drúm
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| '''húmdrúm
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| '''conúndrum
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| '''gymnâsium
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| '''fŏrum
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| -kyûm - '''vácûum
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| -ûəm '''contínûum
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| '''gým
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| ''name'' -'''ným
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| syû- '''pseûdonym
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| '''hómonym
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| '''sýnonym
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| '''ántonym
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| '''Î’m
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| ===N===
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| '''bán
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| '''ürban
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| '''türban
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| '''cán
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| '''Gŏrdon''' rhymes with '''Jŏrdan
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| -tion '''crustâcean
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| '''lôtion''' rhymes with '''ôcean
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| '''dêan
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| '''clêan
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| '''mêan
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| -ìən '''epicûrêan
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| '''fán
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| '''Ìan
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| -íshən -'''ícian
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| '''technícian
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| '''patrícian
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| .*Óstrâlìən in rapid speech ends like '''míllion''' etc., -lyən -
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| '''Austrâlian
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| -íshən ''abstract'' -'''ítion''' = ''person'' -'''ícian
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| '''logícian
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| '''patrícian
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| '''politícian
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| '''mathematícian
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| '''reptílian
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| '''civílian
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| '''Brazílian
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| '''Gíllian
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| '''nonagenãrian
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| '''quinquagenãrian
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| '''septuagenãrian
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| '''sexagenãrian
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| '''octogenãrian
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| '''lîbrãrian
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| '''sectãrian
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| '''vegetãrian
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| '''libertãrian
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| no words end in *-erian
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| '''histŏrian
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| from -'''sia''' + '''n''', = -'''sion''', mostly -zh- -'''sian
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| -zh- '''Âsian
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| -zh- '''Caucâsian
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| -zh- '''Frêsian
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| AmE -izh-, BrE -ízì- '''Parísian
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| -shən = -'''tion''' -'''tian
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| '''Dalmâtian
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| '''nâtion''' rhymes with '''Crôâtian
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| '''Alsâtian
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| '''Títian
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| -bîzh- '''Azerbaijàn
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| '''mán
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| .*Îləv-Mán '''Îsle of Mán
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| mostly -mən -'''man
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| '''pâcemán
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| '''polìceman
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| '''hénchman
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| '''Omàn
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| '''Sûpermán
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| '''gásmán
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| '''ómbùdsman
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| '''Cóngressman
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| '''bátman
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| '''Bátmán
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| '''táxmán
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| '''Nŷman
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| -ən '''[[Kofi Annan|Kôfi Ànnan]]'''
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| '''môan
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| ''alone'' '''lône''' = ''lend'' '''lôan
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| '''grôan
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| ''god'' '''Pán''' = ''food'' '''pán
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| '''tán
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| '''Tîtan
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| '''Spàrtan
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| '''tàrtan
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| can be stressed in any word depending on speaker -'''stān
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| usually second syllable stressed '''Uzbékistan
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| '''Tajíkistan
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| '''Afghánistan
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| '''Manháttan
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| '''ván
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| '''ẁan
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| Tŷ- '''Taiwàn
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| '''ón''' =''French'' '''en
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| ''letter'' '''én
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| '''dén
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| '''wîden
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| cf. '''Lòndon''', both -dən - '''Cámden
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| '''shêen
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| '''splêen
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| cf. '''gángrêne''' - '''grêen
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| '''sêen
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| '''fén
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| '''hén
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| dh- '''thén
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| '''léngthen
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| '''stréngthen
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| '''âlien
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| '''tâken
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| '''wêaken
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| '''brôken
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| '''tôken
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| '''wôken
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| '''dàrken
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| '''heàrken
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| '''póllen
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| '''swôllen
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| '''mén
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| -mən in most words -'''men
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| '''Yémen
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| '''spŏrtsmen
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| '''spécimen
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| '''chíldren
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| '''bréthren
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| '''wörsen
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| '''léssen
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| '''delicatéssen
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| '''bêaten
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| .*sóffən '''sóften
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| .*fāssən '''fāsten
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| .*hâyssən '''hâsten
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| .*líssən '''lísten
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| .*glíssən '''glísten
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| ''bird'' '''bíttërn ≈ ''bite'' bítten
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| '''íll-gótten
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| '''héaven
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| '''hâven
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| '''êven
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| '''eléven
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| '''séven
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| '''òven
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| '''còven
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| or prû- '''prôven
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| '''wôven
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| '''Ôwen
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| '''óxen
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| '''yén
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| '''Zén
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| -n -'''gn
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| '''campâign
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| '''vèin''' rhymes with '''dèign
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| ''would'' '''fâin''' = ''pretend'' '''fèign
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| ''wet'' '''râin''' = ''monarch'' '''rèign
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| .*sóvrin '''sóvereign
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| -lîne '''malîgn
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| -nîne '''benîgn
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| ''mathematics'' '''sîne''' = ''signal'' '''sîgn
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| -zîne '''desîgn
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| -zîne '''resîgn
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| -sîne '''énsîgn
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| -pyûne '''impûgn
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| ''pub'' '''ínn''' = ''out'' '''ín
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| '''Câin
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| '''disdâin
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| '''gâin
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| .*əgén; some regularise it to '''agâin''' - '''again
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| '''slâin
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| '''explâin
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| '''mâin
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| cf. '''germâne''' ''relevant'' = '''Germâine''' ''person'' - '''remâin
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| '''brâin
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| '''Bahrâin
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| '''trâin
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| '''retâin
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| ''person'' '''Bríton''' = ''country'' '''Brítain
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| -tín '''cáptain
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| '''dín
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| '''skèin
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| [[Elmer Bernstein|''Elmer'' '''Bërnstêin''']]
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| [[Leonard Bernstein|''Leonard'' '''Bërnsteîn''']]
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| '''thín
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| '''detërmine''' rhymes with '''vërmin
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| '''pín
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| '''sín
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| '''bâsin
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| '''tín
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| -m -'''mn
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| ''condemn'' '''dám''' = ''water'' '''dámn
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| '''condémn
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| '''sólemn
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| '''cólumn
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| '''åutumn
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| ''man'' '''hím''' = ''church'' '''hýmn
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| ''out'' '''ín''' = ''pub'' '''ínn
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| '''ón
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| mostly schwa, as are '''Cámden''', '''Màrsden''', '''Hámpden'', '''Hámpton''' -'''on
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| '''càrbon
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| ''university, clothing'' '''dón
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| '''Héndon
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| '''Lòndon
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| '''cŏrdon
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| cf. '''gàrden''' – '''Gŏrdon
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| '''curmúdgeon
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| '''pígeon
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| -njən '''dúngeon
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| -jən '''sürgeon
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| -jən '''stürgeon
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| -nchən '''trúncheon
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| '''bandôneon
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| '''Lêón
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| .*kəmêlêən; AmE -mê-; in fast speech -lyən, like '''míllion, Austrâlian''' - '''chamaêlêon
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| '''Napôleon
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| '''nêón
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| '''péntagon
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| '''bándwagon
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| '''àrgón
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| BrE *pólygən, AmE '''pólygón
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| '''îón
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| -yən -'''ion
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| most words spelt thus in Spanish are -'''tion''' in English -'''cion
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| -sh- '''suspícion
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| '''Asunción
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| -sh- '''côërcion
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| '''rêgion
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| '''lêgion
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| '''relígion
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| '''fáshion
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| cf. '''percússion''', also -sh- - '''cùshion
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| '''vermílion
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| '''gálleon''' rhymes with '''stállion
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| '''bíllion
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| '''míllion
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| '''tríllion
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| '''búllion
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| '''ònion
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| '''ûnion
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| '''Orîon
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| '''centûrion
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| -zhən after vowels; -shən after consonants, including after another '''s''' and, in BrE, after another '''r''': -'''sion
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| '''lêsion
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| '''vísion
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| '''télevision
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| '''revísion
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| '''scánsion
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| '''expánsion
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| -'''éntion''' -énshən = -'''énsion
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| '''comprehénsion
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| '''pénsion
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| '''suspénsion
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| '''ténsion
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| '''preténsion
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| '''exténsion
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| '''avërsion
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| '''dîvërsion
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| '''convërsion
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| '''excürsion
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| '''dîgréssion
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| '''séssion
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| '''míssion
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| ím- '''emíssion
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| əm- '''omíssion
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| -sh- '''percússion
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| '''fûsion
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| '''delûsion
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| '''illûsion
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| '''intrûsion
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| mostly -shən –'''tion
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| '''inundâtion
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| '''foundâtion
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| '''creâtion
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| '''renunciâtion
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| '''pronunciâtion
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| '''installátion
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| '''constellátion
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| '''confirmâtion
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| '''formâtion
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| '''nâtion
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| '''rátion
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| vî- '''vibrâtion
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| mî- '''migrâtion
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| -kshən -'''ction
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| '''áction
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| '''afféction
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| '''conféction
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| BrE can be -'''éxion''' - '''refléction
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| '''colléction
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| BrE can be -'''éxion''' - '''connéction
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| '''eréction
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| '''diréction
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| '''contradíction
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| .*sángktchən '''sánction
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| .*úngktchən '''únction
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| .*fúngktchən '''fúnction
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| .*júngktchən '''júnction
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| .*cəmpúngkshən '''compúnction
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| '''complêtion
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| '''discrétion
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| '''definítion
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| '''preposítion
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| '''proposítion
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| '''opposítion
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| '''competítion
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| '''frûítion
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| = -'''énsion''', -énshən -'''éntion
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| '''méntion
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| '''deténtion
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| '''inténtion
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| '''atténtion
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| '''prevéntion
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| '''absŏrption
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| '''erúption
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| '''abŏrtion
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| '''contŏrtion
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| '''contribûtion
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| '''distribûtion
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| '''pollûtion
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| '''solûtion'''
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| -'''éxion''' is, except for '''compléxion''', BrE only: other words end in -'''éction''' - '''éxion'''
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| so AmE, BrE '''refléction''' = BrE only '''refléxion'''
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| cf. '''conféction''' - *compléction '''compléxion'''
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| cf. '''convíction''' - '''crucifíxion'''
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| '''nŷlón'''
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| '''dêmon
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| '''lémon
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| '''Sólomon
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| '''Lébanon
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| '''cánnon
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| '''Shánnon
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| '''moôn
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| '''buffoôn
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| '''balloôn
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| '''lampoôn
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| '''harpoôn
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| cf. '''càrton''' - '''cartoôn
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| '''upón
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| ''person'' '''Bárron''' = ''lord'' '''báron
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| ''person'' '''Sháron
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| ''person'' AmE '''Sharôn''', BtE '''Sharón
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| '''sáffron
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| '''eléctrón
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| '''neûtrón
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| sh- '''chévrón
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| ''boy'' '''sòn
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| '''bîson
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| '''Áshton
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| '''Élton
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| '''Lýttelton
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| '''prôtón
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| '''càrton
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| '''Nŏrton
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| ''east'' '''êastern''' BrE = ''person'' '''Êaston
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| ''west'' '''wéstern''' BrE = ''person'' '''Wéston
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| cf. '''Féatherstone''', etc. '''Ålston
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| '''Màrston
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| '''Rŏyston
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| '''bútton
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| '''mútton
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| '''Sútton
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| '''wòn
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| cf. '''Jáckson, Híckson''', etc. '''Díxon
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| '''Níxon
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| '''Ríxon
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| '''bàrn
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| '''dàrn
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| '''ëarn
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| '''lëarn
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| cf. '''wårm''', '''wörm''': ''wear'' '''wŏrn''' = ''person'' '''Wårne''' = ''warning'' '''wårn
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| '''yàrn
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| ''direction'' '''türn''' = ''bird'' '''tërn
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| '''lántern
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| '''stërn
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| '''astërn
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| ''persons'' '''Pátten''' = '''Pátton''' = BrE ''arrange'' '''páttern
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| '''bŏrn
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| '''cŏrn
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| cf. ''wriggly'' '''wörm''' - ''warning'' '''wårn''' = ''wear'' '''wŏrn
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| '''ürn
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| '''bürn
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| '''chürn
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| ''round'' '''türn
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| '''fún
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| '''gún
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| '''nòun
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| ''shine'' '''sún
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| '''Whítsun
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| '''dåwn
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| '''påwn
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| '''spåwn
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| '''pråwn
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| '''heŵn
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| .*sône ''seed'' '''sewn
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| '''gòwn
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| '''blôwn
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| '''môwn
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| '''renòwn
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| .*nôan '''knôwn
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| '''bròwn
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| '''cròwn
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| '''grôwn
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| '''tòwn
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| ===O===
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| mostly '''ô'''; never -ó -'''o
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| '''placêbô
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| usually *ənkô - '''& cô''', '''and cô
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| '''stúccô
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| '''flaméncô
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| -û '''do
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| '''vídêo
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| '''Montevidèo
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| '''Lêo
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| '''Clìo''' = '''Clêo
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| '''Galilèo
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| '''gô
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| '''lumbâgo
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| '''dóggô
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| '''vërtigo
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| '''Djángo
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| '''lôgô
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| '''Tôgo
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| '''mácho
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| .*sŷko '''psŷcho
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| .*Tŷko '''Tŷcho
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| -shô '''braggadôcio
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| '''portfôlio
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| '''pôlio
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| -ss- '''impresàrio
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| -shô '''râtio
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| -shô '''Horâtio
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| '''nô
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| '''taboô
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| '''gôo
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| '''ígloô
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| '''Wåterloô
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| '''shampoô
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| '''kangaroô
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| '''woô
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| .*Búrə - it means Míddlesbrough, which doesn’t have the '''ò''' - ends in schwa - '''Bòro
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| '''prô
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| cf. '''bûreau''' - '''pólitburo
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| '''sô
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| '''Plâto
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| AmE '''tomâto''' BrE '''tomàto
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| '''potâto
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| f- '''phôto
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| '''Plûto
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| ''at'' '''to''' = ''also, many'' '''toô''' = ''2'' '''tŵo
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| '''émbrỳo
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| ===P===
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| '''cáp
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| '''gáp
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| '''snáp
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| '''táp
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| '''stép
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| '''híp
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| '''friéndship
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| '''kíngship
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| '''crāftsmanship
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| '''shôwmanship
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| '''wörship
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| '''kíp
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| '''skíp
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| '''líp
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| '''clíp
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| '''flíp
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| '''slíp
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| '''whíp
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| '''gríp
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| '''tríp
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| '''stríp
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| '''whélp
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| '''kélp
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| '''cámp
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| '''dámp
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| '''lámp
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| '''rámp
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| '''crámp
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| '''trámp
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| '''hémp
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| '''ímp
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| '''skímp
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| '''límp
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| '''pímp
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| '''wímp
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| '''búmp
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| '''dúmp
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| '''thúmp
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| '''júmp
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| '''lúmp
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| '''slúmp
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| '''frúmp
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| '''trúmp
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| '''devélop
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| cf. ''noun'' '''énvelôpe''' - ''verb'' '''envélop
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| '''flóp
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| '''póp
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| '''sóp
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| '''désktóp
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| '''láptóp
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| '''hoôp
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| '''droôp
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| '''troôp
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| '''loôp
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| '''sloôp
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| '''stoôp
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| '''càrp
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| '''hàrp
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| '''wårp
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| '''bürp
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| '''slürp
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| '''clāsp
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| '''rāsp
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| '''grāsp
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| '''crísp
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| '''wísp
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| '''cúsp
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| '''úp
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| '''cùp
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| ''bird'' '''coô''' = ''overthrow'' '''coûp
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| .*rêcoôp '''recoûp
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| .*groôp '''groûp
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| '''gåwp
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| ===Q===
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| '''Mùshtaq
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| '''Iràq
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| '''Sádiq
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| '''Táriq
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| ===R===
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| where unstressed, schwa -'''ar
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| '''bazàar
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| '''bàr
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| '''càr
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| '''râdàr
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| '''cálendar
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| '''êar
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| cf. ''drink'' '''bêer''' - ''naked'' '''bãre''' = ''animal, tolerate'' '''béãr
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| cf. ''risk'' '''dãre''' - ''animal'' '''dêer''' = ''beloved, expensive'' '''dêar
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| '''fêar
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| '''gêar
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| ''there'' '''hêre''' = ''ear'' '''hêar
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| ''look'' '''lêer''' = ''person'' '''Lêar
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| '''clêar
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| '''unclêar
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| .*nûclêə(r) '''nûclear
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| '''smêar
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| '''yêar''' or '''yëar
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| cf. '''búgger''' - '''béggar
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| though contemporaries pronounced it ending in schwa - '''[[Edward Elgar|Élgàr]]
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| sh- '''sùgar
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| '''buŷer, flŷer''' and '''trîer''' rhyme with '''lîar
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| '''brîar
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| '''jàr
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| '''símilar
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| '''píllar
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| '''cáterpillar
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| '''cóllar
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| '''hóller''' rhymes with '''dóllar
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| sk- '''schólar
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| '''môlar
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| '''múscular
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| '''régular
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| '''júgular
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| '''grámmar
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| -z- '''quâsàr
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| '''púlsàr
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| '''Qátàr
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| '''néctar
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| '''scímitàr
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| '''sítàr
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| ''change'' '''ålter''' = ''church'' '''åltar
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| '''mŏrtar
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| '''stàr
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| schwa: AmE '''uh''' = BrE '''er
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| mostly schwa; stressed -'''ër''' in some words; some AmE -'''er''' words are -'''re''' in BrE. -'''er
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| '''câber
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| silent '''b''': *clîmer '''clîmber
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| '''tímber
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| '''encúmber
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| '''cûcumber
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| '''lúmber
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| silent '''b''': *plúmmer '''plúmber
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| '''cáncer
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| '''dāncer
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| '''cîder
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| '''glîder
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| '''spîder
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| ''person'' '''Rŷder''' = ''ride'', ''logic'' '''rîder
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| '''insîder
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| ''bold'' '''bôlder''' = ''rock'' '''bôulder
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| '''shôulder
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| '''propagánda''' rhymes with BrE '''gánder
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| '''Lê'''- '''Leánder
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| '''mê'''- '''meánder
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| cf. '''sqùalor''' - '''sqùander
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| '''ẁander
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| '''wònder
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| '''yónder
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| '''enginêer
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| '''pîonêer
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| iléc- '''electionêer
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| cf. ''wither'' '''sêar''', one diphthong, one syllable - *sêeər, two syllables ''see'' '''sêer
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| '''voluntêer
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| '''defër
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| '''confër
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| '''refër
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| '''prefër
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| '''óffer
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| '''próffer
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| '''cónifer
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| '''pílfer
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| hard '''g''' - '''làger
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| -j- '''mánager
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| cf. '''béggar''' - '''dágger
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| '''bígger
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| '''lógger
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| '''blógger
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| .*Nizhãir '''Nigér
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| hard '''g''' - '''tîger
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| hard '''g''' pronounced separately: áng-ger '''ánger
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| .*dânjer '''dânger
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| '''g''' not pronounced separately from -'''ng'''-; ''aeroplane'' '''hángar''' = ''coat'' '''hánger
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| .*mânjer '''mânger
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| .*strânjer '''strânger
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| .*jínjer '''gínger
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| hard '''g''' sounded separately: líng-ger '''línger
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| no '''g''' sound '''sínger
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| no '''g''' sound '''wínger
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| hard '''g''' sounded separately *mòng-ger -'''mònger
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| '''físhmònger
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| '''warmonger
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| hard '''g''' sounded separately: *stróng-ger - '''strónger
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| '''àrcher
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| '''màrcher
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| '''cátcher
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| '''decîpher
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| '''gôpher
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| '''cîpher''' or '''cŷpher
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| usually voiced '''th''' and schwa -'''ther
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| '''bâther
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| '''féather
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| '''héather
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| '''léather
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| ''climate'' '''wéather
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| ''BrE far'' '''fàrther''' = ''AmE as well as BrE dad'' '''fàther
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| cf. AmE '''fàther''' - AmE '''láther''' - '''lāther
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| '''bláther
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| cf. AmE '''fàther''' - AmE '''ráther''' - '''rāther
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| unvoiced '''th''' - '''êther
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| '''togéther
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| ''if'' '''whéther
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| '''téther
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| for most speakers ''where'' '''whíther''' = ''decay'' '''wíther
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| '''òther
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| '''bóther
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| '''smòther
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| '''mòther
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| one word '''anòther
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| '''bròther
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| '''fàrther
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| '''fürther
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| '''idéntifîer
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| '''supplîer
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| '''ëarlier
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| ''person'' '''Crŷer''' = ''cry, town'' '''crîer
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| '''pìêr
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| silent French '''r''' - '''dóssièr
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| ''cry'' '''têar''' = ''level'' '''tìêr
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| '''jôker
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| '''hoòker
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| '''snoôker
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| '''pôker
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| '''bàrker
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| '''wörker
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| '''hándler
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| '''tóddler
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| '''jâiler
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| '''tåller
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| '''dóllar''' rhymes with '''hóller
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| '''rôller
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| '''stámmer
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| ''baseball'' '''hômer''' = ''person'' '''Hômer
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| '''wårmer
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| '''fŏrmer
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| '''góner
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| '''lôner
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| '''kêeper
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| '''léper
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| .*loôzer '''loser
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| '''câter
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| '''lâter
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| '''wåter
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| cf. '''áctor''' - k- '''cháracter
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| '''detër
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| cf. BrE '''mêtre''', AmE '''mêter''' distance, rhythm - '''parámeter
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| '''perímeter
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| '''thermómeter
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| '''Pêter
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| '''trúmpeter
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| .*dåwter '''dåughter
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| '''āfter''' rhymes with '''lāughter
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| .*slåwter '''slåughter
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| '''wâiter
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| ''church'' '''åltar''' = ''change'' '''ålter
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| '''fålter
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| '''Wålter
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| '''shélter
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| '''helter-skélter
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| '''wélter
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| '''promôter
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| '''hélicopter
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| '''stàrter
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| '''disāster
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| '''Chéster
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| '''Mánchester
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| '''Dŏrchester
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| or -'''or''': '''protéster
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| '''gángster
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| '''yoúngster
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| '''blíster
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| '''síster
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| '''hípster
| |
| | |
| '''bátter
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| '''fátter
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| '''hátter
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| '''mátter
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| '''pátter
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| '''bétter
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| '''bítter
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| '''lítter
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| '''hótter
| |
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| '''tótter
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| | |
| '''bútter
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| '''stútter
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| '''commûter
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| '''compûter
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| .*lácker '''lácquer
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| '''avër
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| '''hâver
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| '''brâver
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| '''quâver
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| '''wâver
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| '''fêver
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| '''whichéver
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| AmE '''léver''' - BrE '''lêver
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| '''cléver
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| '''whenéver
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| .*hû-éver '''whoéver
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| '''wheréver
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| .*wót-éver '''whatéver
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| '''hòwéver
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| '''fîver
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| '''líver
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| '''ríver
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| ''arrow, shake'' '''quíver
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| '''ôver
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| '''còver
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| '''Dôver
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| '''hóver
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| '''lòver
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| '''plòver
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| ''art'' '''dråw''' ≈ ''desk'' '''dråwer
| |
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| '''bòwer
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| '''flòwer
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| '''glòwer
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| '''pòwer
| |
| | |
| '''tòwer
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| | |
| cf. '''lãir''' - *lãyə '''lâyer
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| | |
| .*plâyə(r) '''plâyer
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| .*prãir '''prãyer
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| | |
| .*fŏyây '''fŏyèr
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| '''låwyer''' rhymes with '''emplŏyer
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| | |
| '''buŷer
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| | |
| .*lŏyer låwyer
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| '''thére''' *thãir rhymes with '''ãir
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| '''hãir
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| | |
| '''despãir
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| '''fïr
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| | |
| -vwàr '''réservoir
| |
| | |
| '''tâpìr
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| '''stïr
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| | |
| '''bestïr
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| | |
| mostly schwa, as also -'''er''' and -'''our'''; none of the words listed right here have the -'''our''' ending in [[British English]], see -'''our''' for some other [[American English]] -'''or''' spellings: -'''or
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| '''córridŏr
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| '''cóndŏr
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| '''fŏr
| |
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| '''abhŏr
| |
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| '''ultêrior
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| '''antêrior
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| '''postêrior
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| ánk- '''ánchor
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| ''person'' '''Tâylor''' = ''clothes'' '''tâilor
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| '''pállor
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| '''chāncellor
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| '''trémor
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| '''gòvernor
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| '''dŏor
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| '''pŏor
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| '''térror
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| '''hórror
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| '''spónsor
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| ''téar'' '''tŏre''' = ''crag'' '''tŏr
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| '''álligâtor
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| '''flagellâtor
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| '''órator
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| '''colláborator
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| '''narrâtor
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| '''spectâtor
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| '''áctor
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| '''léctor
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| '''[[Selécter]]''' ''band'' = '''seléctor
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| '''colléctor
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| '''protéctor
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| '''véctor
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| '''dóctor
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| '''proprîetor
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| '''trâitor
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| '''méntŏr
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| '''protéster''' is much more common than '''protéstor
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| '''invéstor
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| '''resístor
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| '''transístor
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| '''impóstor
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| '''whïrr
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| '''Cŏrr
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| '''fürr
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| '''pürr
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| '''occür
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| '''incür
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| '''concür
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| .*grándure, BrE *gránjə '''grándeur
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| on- '''entreprenëur
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| '''rapportëur
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| '''frottëur
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| '''longuëur
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| '''voyëur
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| '''für
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| AmE '''súlfur''' BrE '''súlphur
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| '''demür
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| '''fêmur
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| '''lêmur
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| '''mürmur
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| ''we'' '''òur''' = ''time'' '''hòur
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| '''doûr
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| AmE '''hàrbor''' BrE *hàrbə '''hàrbour
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| AmE '''ráncor''' BrE *ráncə '''ráncour
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| '''scòur
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| ''preposition'' '''fŏr''' = ''4'' '''fŏur
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| ''petal'' '''flòwer''' = ''dough'' '''flòur
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| AmE '''còlor''' BrE *cúlə '''còlour
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| cf. '''sqùander''': AmE '''sqùalor''' BrE *skwólə '''sqùalour
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| AmE '''glámor''' BrE *glámə '''glámour
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| AmE '''hûmor''' BrE *hûmə '''hûmour
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| silent '''h''': AmE '''hónor''' BrE *ónə '''hónour
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| '''sòur
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| ''téar'' '''tŏre''' = ''hill'' '''tŏr''' = for some speakers ''travel'' '''toûr
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| '''nón séquitur
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| -ə(r) -'''yr
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| '''zéphyr
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| '''màrtyr
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| ===S===
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| .*áz '''ás
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| .*(h)w(é)əráz '''whereás
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| .*ház '''hás
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| .*Cánzus '''Kánsas
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| -såw '''Årkansås
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| .*wóz '''ẁas
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| AmE *ërbs '''hërbs
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| '''thê'''- '''theátrics
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| -x '''athlétics
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| -x '''gymnástics
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| -x '''logístics
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| '''Nétherlands
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| -dz '''fŏrwards
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| words from Greek, etc: -êz -'''ês
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| '''Ándês
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| '''antípodês
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| '''côdes
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| -íz '''édges
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| -íz '''lódges
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| -íz '''Hódges
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| ''hew'' '''heŵs''' = ''person'' '''Hûghes
| |
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| '''lúllabîes
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| -íz '''râbíes
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| .*síəríz '''sêríes
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| -íz AmE '''wörríes''', BrE '''wòrríes
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| '''Lós''' = '''lóss''' ''lose''; -íz '''Lós Ángeles
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| ''distance'' '''mîles''' = ''person'' '''Mîles
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| [[minimal pair]]: cf. '''shékels''' - '''sháckles
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| -z '''Hërculês
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| -nz '''Bàrnes
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| '''Jóhn Mâynard Kèynes
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| '''Mílton Kêynes
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| .*dúzz '''dòes
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| .*gôze '''gôes
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| '''hêroes
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| .*tôze '''tôes
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| -tôze '''potâtoes
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| plural of -'''sís''' in Greek-derived words (see [[English irregular nouns]]) -'''sês
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| '''parénthesês
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| cf. '''prîces''' *prîsíz - *crŷsêez '''crîsês
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| .*loôziz '''loses
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| '''glāsses
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| -zíz '''hòuses
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| -ssíz '''spòuses
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| '''Sócratês
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| '''hêaves
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| ''leave, leaf'' '''lêaves
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| ''have-nots'' '''háves
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| '''shâves
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| '''wâves
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| ''thief'' '''thìêves
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| '''Îves
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| '''gíves
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| -k- '''àrchîves
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| ''plural noun'' '''lîves
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| ''singular verb'' '''líves
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| ''knife'' '''knîves
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| '''arrîves
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| '''môtíves
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| ''wife'' '''wîves
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| ''calf'' '''càlves
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| ''valve'' '''válves
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| ''elf'' '''élves
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| ''delve'' '''délves
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| ''shelf'' '''shélves
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| ''self'' '''sélves
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| one word, as with following: *òursélvz '''oursélves
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| .*yŏrsélvz '''yoursélves
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| .*dhəmsélvz '''themsélves
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| .*wùlvz '''wolves'''
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| cf. '''dòves''' - '''drôves
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| ''hoof'' '''hoôves
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| ''scarf'' '''scàrves
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| .*yéss '''yés
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| '''hoôves''' rhymes with '''roôfs
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| -gz '''dógs
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| '''parîahs
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| ''big'' '''sîze''' = ''sigh'' '''sîghs
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| -āffs '''lāughs
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| -óffs '''cóughs
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| .*íz '''ís
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| .*híz '''hís
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| plurals, no apostrophes, -íz '''Bangladéshis
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| -íz '''Bengålis
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| -íz '''Nepålis
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| -íz '''Isrâelis
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| -iz ''semifinals'' '''sémis
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| -əss '''pênis
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| -íz '''Sùnnis
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| -nŏy '''Íllinois
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| -íss '''Páris
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| '''Hórace''' and '''Mórris''' = BrE '''Maurice''' rhyme with '''Bóris''' and '''Dóris
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| '''Hárris
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| '''térrace''' rhymes with '''Férris
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| rhyming with '''Hórace''', BrE '''Maurice''' = '''Mórris
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| '''Nórris
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| '''thêsis
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| Greek-derived words in -'''sís''', *síss, have -'''sês''', *sêez, to mark their plurals (see [[English Irregular Nouns]]) '''sýnthesis
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| '''némesis
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| -íss '''Dâvis
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| -íss '''Mâvis
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| -íss '''Trávis
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| '''Élvis
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| '''pélvis
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| -íss '''áxis
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| '''léxis
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| .*nóx '''knócks
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| '''loòks
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| '''spoôks
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| -z '''sélls
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| -z '''húms
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| words from Greek: -óss -'''ós
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| .*kâyós '''châos
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| ''insect'' '''lòuse''' = ''nation'' '''Làos
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| -dôz '''tornâdos'''
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| -pss '''hélps
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| '''schnápps
| |
| | |
| ''heart'' '''cŏre''' = ''army'' '''cŏrps
| |
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| -z '''stàrs
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| '''lîars, trîers''' and '''buŷers''' rhyme with '''plîers
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| '''bôres''', BrE '''påuse''', and '''påws''' rhyme with '''dŏors
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| mostly -íss -'''ess
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| .*áxéss '''áccéss
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| '''góddéss
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| '''cãreless
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| '''ûseless
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| '''hápless
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| '''hélpless
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| '''t''' can be silent in '''lístless
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| '''t''' can be silent in '''réstless
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| '''méss
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| '''goòdness
| |
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| '''lîonéss
| |
| | |
| cf. '''clêan''' - '''cléanliness
| |
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| '''clúmsiness
| |
| | |
| '''nāstiness
| |
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| '''shŷness
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| '''dréss
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| '''áctress
| |
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| '''stréss
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| '''headmístress
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| | |
| cf. '''áccess''' *áxéss - '''asséss
| |
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| silent '''u''' - '''guéss
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| '''kíss
| |
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| '''míss
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| '''lóss
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| '''grôss
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| '''cúss
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| -tss '''cáts
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| '''Kêats
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| '''Yâtes''' = '''Yeâts
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| ''it is'' '''ít’s''' = ''of it'' '''íts
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| mostly -əss -'''us
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| -ss '''bús
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| '''ábacus
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| '''fôcus
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| -oôz '''Híndûs
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| -kəss '''Bácchus
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| '''Sibèlius
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| '''Dêlius
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| '''Jûlius
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| j-; cf. ''adjective'' '''ingênious''' - ''noun'' '''gênius
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| '''ignorâmus
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| j- '''gênus
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| -yoôz '''ménûs
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| for adjectives = -'''us''' mostly for nouns: -əss –'''ous
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| '''cåucus''' rhymes with '''råucous
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| -dəss - only found in the following five words -'''dous
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| '''treméndous
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| '''stûpendous
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| '''horréndous
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| jép- '''jéopardous
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| '''házardous
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| -jəss '''outrâgeous
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| -jəss '''gŏrgeous
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| '''simultâneous
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| '''pugnâcious
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| -êsh- '''spêcious
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| -ésh- '''précious
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| -ísh- '''vícious
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| '''uncónscious
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| '''relígious''' rhymes with '''sacrilegious
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| cf. ''noun'' '''gênius''' - ''adjective'' '''ingênious
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| '''pîous
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| '''censŏrious
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| kyù- '''cùrious
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| -ísh- '''fictítious
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| '''óbvious
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| '''prêvious
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| .*ánkshus '''ánxious
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| '''jéalous
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| '''zéalous
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| '''màrvellous
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| '''ridículous
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| '''fâmous
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| ínfə- '''ínfamous
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| '''ánimus''' cf. '''ûnánimous
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| cf. '''vërtigo''', hard '''g''' - '''g''' as '''j''' in '''vertíginous
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| '''glûtinous
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| '''glúttonous
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| '''scábrous
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| '''wòndrous
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| '''slānderous
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| '''thúnderous
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| '''mürderous
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| '''nûmerous
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| from BrE -our (AmE -or) - -'''orous
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| '''rígorous
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| '''vígorous
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| '''glámorous
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| '''hûmorous
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| díz- '''disàstrous
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| '''mónstrous
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| '''vácûous
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| '''fátûous
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| '''nërvous
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| .*Bélla-Roôse '''Belarûs
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| cf. '''prósperous''' - '''phósphorus
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| '''rhêsus
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| '''cénsus
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| '''consénsus
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| '''sánctus
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| '''ríctus
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| -z '''jåws
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| irregular: *séz '''says
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| regular: *stâze '''stâys
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| -âze '''sîdeways
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| never used to form plurals: either a singular possessive or an abbreviation of '''ís''' - ''''s
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| w-, plural '''ònes''' = possessive '''òne’s
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| or *híz '''hê’s
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| or *shíz '''shê’s
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| '''chíldren’s
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| ''of it'' '''íts''' = ''it is'' '''ít’s
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| ===T===
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| '''át
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| '''cát
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| '''bêat
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| '''hêat
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| '''chêat
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| '''plêat
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| '''nêat
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| '''fát
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| voiced '''th''' - '''thát
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| '''slát
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| ''ash'' '''grâte''' = ''big'' '''greât
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| '''swéat
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| '''bôat
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| '''côat
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| '''flôat
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| '''glôat
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| '''môat
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| '''Crôát
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| '''thrôat
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| .*dét '''débt
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| .*dòut '''dòubt
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| ''touch'' '''afféct
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| ''emotion'' '''áffect
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| ''result'' í- '''efféct
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| ''adjective'' '''përfect
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| ''verb'' '''perféct
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| ''thing'' '''óbject
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| ''disagree'' '''objéct
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| ''matter'' '''súbject
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| ''cruel'' '''subjéct
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| ''verb'' '''rejéct
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| ''noun'' '''rêjéct
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| '''colléct
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| '''connéct
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| '''áspect
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| '''respéct
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| .*éxtradîte '''éxtradîct
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| ''person'' '''áddict
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| ''verb'' '''addíct
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| '''êdict
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| .*indîte '''indîct
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| '''vërdict
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| ''person'' '''cónvict
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| ''verb'' '''convíct
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| mostly -ít (-ət in Australasian English), but some have French -ây -'''et
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| BrE '''Hërbert''' rhymes with '''shërbet
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| '''t''' sounded ''hit'' '''búffet
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| .*bùffây ''food'' '''bùffèt
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| .*crôshây '''crôchet
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| '''rátchet
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| '''crótchet
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| '''thícket
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| '''pícket
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| '''crícket
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| '''wícket
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| '''màrket
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| -lây '''chálèt
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| cf. -'''létte''' - *boòklít; these words are -lət in Australasian English - '''boòklet
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| '''píglet
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| .*bállây '''bállèt
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| '''mállet
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| '''ẁallet
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| '''bíllet
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| '''tríplet
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| AmE all stressed on medial '''û''': -'''ûplet'''; BrE medial '''u''' as schwa - '''qùadruplet, quíntuplet, séxtuplet, séptuplet, óctuplet
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| '''stàrlet
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| '''Jánet
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| '''plánet
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| '''gánnet
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| '''cŏrnet
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| '''límpet
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| -rây '''bérèt
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| '''å''' - '''quartét
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| '''bánquet
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| -kây '''crôquèt
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| -kây '''sóbriquèt
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| BrE *pàhkây, AmE *parkây '''pàrquèt
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| .*boô-kây '''bouquèt
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| '''déft
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| '''héft
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| '''léft
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| '''beréft
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| '''míffed''' rhymes with '''ríft
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| '''dríft
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| '''shríft
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| '''lóft
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| .*yót '''yacht
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| mostly silent '''gh''' -'''ght
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| '''èight
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| '''heîght
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| '''frèight
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| '''wèight
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| '''fîght
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| '''lîght
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| '''delîght
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| '''plîght
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| cf. '''sleîght-of-hánd''' - ''little'' '''slîght
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| '''nîght
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| '''rîght
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| '''frîght
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| '''tîght
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| ''person'' '''Wrîght''' = ''correct, left'' '''rîght''' = maker -'''wrîght
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| .*plâywrîte '''plâywrîght
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| '''cópyrîght
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| ''should'' '''ŏught''' = ''any'' '''åught
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| '''cåught
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| '''drāft''' = '''drāught
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| '''fråught
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| ''any'' '''åught''' = ''should'' '''ŏught
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| '''bŏught
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| '''fŏught
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| '''nŏught
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| '''brŏught
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| '''dròught
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| '''wrŏught
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| '''ít
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| -'''ate''' rhymes with -'''âit
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| ''breath'' '''bâte''' = ''catch'' '''bâit
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| ''door'' '''gâte''' = ''walk'' '''gâit
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| ''heavy'' '''wèight''' = ''linger'' '''wâit
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| '''awâit
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| '''bít
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| '''inhábit
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| '''prohíbit
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| '''déficit
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| '''còunterfeít
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| '''fŏrfeít
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| '''sürfeít
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| '''Fáhrenheît
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| '''befít
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| '''fít
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| '''hít
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| '''kít
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| '''lít
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| '''admít
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| '''commít
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| '''ômít
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| '''vómit
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| '''sít
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| -kít '''cïrcuit
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| -skít '''bíscuit
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| '''cóndûít
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| '''quít
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| -roôt '''recrûit
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| .*froòt '''frûit
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| cf. '''soòt''' - *sût or *syût '''sûit
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| '''Jésûít
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| -syoôt '''pursûit
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| '''quít
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| '''wít
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| '''dímwit
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| '''outwít
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| '''côbålt
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| '''hålt
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| '''målt
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| '''bélt
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| K- '''Célt
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| n- '''knélt
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| '''félt
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| '''jílt
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| '''kílt
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| '''sílt
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| '''tílt
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| .*bílt '''buílt
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| '''wílt
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| '''fåult
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| '''cúlt
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| only word ending in -'''mt''' (cf. '''prómpt''') - '''dréamt
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| '''ánt
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| ''AmE cannot'' '''cán’t''' = ''philosopher'' '''Kánt''' = ''words'' '''cánt
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| '''signíficant
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| '''descéndant
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| '''deféndant
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| ''adjective'' '''depéndent''' = ''person'' '''depéndant
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| BrE *pànshàn, AmE '''pénchant
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| '''trénchant
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| '''clâimant
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| '''dŏrmant
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| '''còvenant
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| cf. '''próminent''' - '''dóminant
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| '''rámpant
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| '''árrant
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| '''érrant
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| ''now'' cúrrent = ''eat'' cúrrant
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| '''pléasant
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| '''incéssant
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| '''blâtant
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| '''hésitant
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| '''contéstant
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| '''resístant
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| '''rélevant
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| '''sërvant
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| '''ẁant
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| ''send'' '''sént''' = ''money'' '''cént
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| .*áxent '''áccent
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| '''dêcent
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| '''rêcent
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| '''magníficent
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| '''ascént
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| '''dént
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| '''précedent
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| '''antecêdent
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| áxi- '''áccident
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| óxi- '''óccident
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| '''résident
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| '''président
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| ''person'' '''depéndant''' = ''adjective'' '''depéndent
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| '''indepéndent
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| j- ''man'' (abbreviation of '''géntleman''') '''gént
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| '''stríngent
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| '''púngent
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| hard '''G'''- ''Belgium'' '''Ghént
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| '''obêdient
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| ''Christian'' '''Lént''' = ''lend'' '''lént
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| '''éxcellent
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| '''repéllent
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| '''fråudulent
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| cf. ''mean'' '''méant''' - ''suffix'' -'''ment
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| '''engâgement
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| '''mánagement
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| '''séttlement
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| AmE´'''ádvertîsement''', BrE -tíssm- '''advërtísement
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| '''âilment
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| '''gòvernment
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| '''pâyment
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| '''përmanent
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| cf. '''dóminant''' - '''próminent
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| '''përtinent
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| '''oppônent
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| '''pãrent
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| '''appárent
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| '''transpárent
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| '''dífferent
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| '''inhérent
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| '''cohêrent
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| '''réverent
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| '''irréverent
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| ''eat'' '''cúrrant''' = ''now'' '''cúrrent
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| ''money'' '''cént''' = ''send'' '''sént
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| '''tént
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| '''cómpetent
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| '''inadvërtent
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| '''consístent
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| '''persístent
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| '''nón-exístent
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| '''vént
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| '''fërvent
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| '''línt
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| '''flínt
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| '''glínt
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| '''mínt
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| '''pînt
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| '''frònt
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| '''dåunt
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| '''gåunt
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| '''håunt
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| ''verb'' '''discòunt
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| ''noun'' '''díscount
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| vîc- '''vîscount
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| '''blúnt
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| '''rúnt
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| '''stúnt
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| '''gót
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| .*éscàr-gô '''escargôt
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| '''Màrgo''' = '''Màrgôt
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| '''hót
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| '''lót
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| ''no'' '''nót''' = ''tie'' '''knót
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| '''boôt
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| '''hoôt
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| '''foòt
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| '''loôt
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| '''roôt
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| '''soòt
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| '''pót
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| '''rót
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| '''árrow''' rhymes with '''tárôt
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| ''gold'' ''cárat'' = ''eat'' '''cárrot
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| '''párrot
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| '''tót
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| '''ápt
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| '''léapt
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| '''accépt
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| '''excépt
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| '''képt
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| '''slépt
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| '''wépt
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| '''prê-émpt
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| '''unkémpt
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| '''exémpt
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| ''noun'' '''éxcërpt
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| íx- ''verb'' '''excërpt
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| '''àrt
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| '''pàrt
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| '''depàrt
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| '''impàrt
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| '''wårt
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| '''dïrt
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| '''flïrt
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| '''fŏrt
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| '''shŏrt
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| '''repŏrt
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| ''noun'' '''ímport
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| ''verb'' '''impŏrt
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| '''sŏrt
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| ''verb'' '''consŏrt
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| cf. '''cóncert''' - ''noun'' '''cónsŏrt
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| ''person'' '''Kürt''' = ''terse'' '''cürt
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| '''hürt
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| '''êast
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| '''bêast
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| '''fêast
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| '''lêast
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| '''bréast
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| '''yêast
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| '''fāst
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| '''lāst
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| '''māst
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| '''vāst
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| '''stréssed''' rhymes with -'''est
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| '''bést
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| '''íncést
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| .*hŷíst '''hîghest
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| .*drŷíst '''drîest
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| '''priêst
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| '''jést
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| '''lést
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| '''nést
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| '''vést
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| '''wést
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| '''lôwest
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| '''ángst
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| '''râcist
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| .*fáshist '''fáscist
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| '''líst
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| sôshə- '''sôcialist
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| '''týpist
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| '''gríst
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| K- '''Chrîst
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| -k- '''Gílchríst
| | Páramour, enámoured, flîghty, |
| | :Épisôdes, antípodês, |
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| | :Ácquiésce, and óbsequies. |
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| '''insíst | | Plêase dôn't mònkey wíth the gêyser, |
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| '''consíst | | Dôn't pêel 'tâters wíth mŷ râzor, |
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| '''persíst
| | :Rāther sây ín áccents pûre: |
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| | :Nâture, státure ánd matûre. |
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| '''exíst
| | Pîous, ímpìous, límb, clîmb, glúmly, |
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| '''whîlst
| | Worsted (wùsted), wörsted, crúmbly, dúmbly, |
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| | :Cónquer, cónquest, vàse, phâse, fán, |
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| | :Ẁan, sedán and àrtisan. |
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| | The TH (*têe-âitch) wíll sůrely troúble you |
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| '''cóst
| | Mŏre than R, CH ŏr W (*àh, cêe-âitch ŏr doúble-û) |
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| ''dusty'' '''dúst''' = ''archaic do'' '''dòst
| | :Sây thén thêse phonétic géms: |
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| | :Thómas, thŷme, Therêsa, Thames (*Témz). |
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| '''hôst
| | Thómpson, Chátham, Wåltham, Stréatham, |
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| '''ghôst | | Thére are mŏre but Î forgét 'em - |
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| | :Wâit! Î've gót ít: Ánthony, |
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| | :Lîghten yŏur anxîety. |
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| '''lóst
| | Thê archâíc wörd ålbêít |
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| '''fŏremôst
| | Does nót rhŷme wíth èight - yoû sêe ít; |
| | | :Wíth and fŏrthwith, òne hás vŏice, |
| '''úppermôst
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| '''òutermôst
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| '''pôst
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| '''fïrst
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| '''thïrst
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| '''wörst
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| '''cürsed''' rhymes with '''bürst
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| '''hürst
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| '''búst
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| '''lôcust
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| '''lúst
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| '''trúst
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| '''cýst
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| '''ánalýst
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| '''cátalýst
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| more common in family names like '''Péttitt''' and '''Sénnett''' (= '''sénate''' ''house'') than in ordinary words: -'''tt
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| '''ẁatt
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| ''head'' '''bútt
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| '''Àrgonaut
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| cóz- '''cósmonaut
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| '''ástronaut
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| '''júggernaut
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| ''however'' '''bút
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| '''cút
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| '''jút
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| '''glút
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| '''slút
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| '''nút
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| '''òut
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| '''gòut
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| '''clòut
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| '''pòut
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| '''tòut
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| .*impùt '''ínput
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| '''rút
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| '''neŵt
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| '''nòwt
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| '''séxed''' rhymes with '''néxt
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| '''téxt
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| '''cān’t
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| '''shān’t
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| '''hádn’t
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| '''nêedn’t
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| '''dídn’t
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| .*cùdənt '''coùldn’t
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| .*shùdənt '''shoùldn’t
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| .*wùdənt '''woùldn’t
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| '''àren’t
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| '''dãren’t
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| '''wëren’t
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| '''háven’t
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| '''âin’t
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| '''dôn’t
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| ''habit'' '''wônt''' = ''will'' '''wôn’t
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| .*házzənt '''hásn’t
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| .*wózzənt '''ẁasn’t
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| .*dúzzənt '''dòesn’t
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| .*ízzənt '''ísn’t
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| .*åwtənt '''ŏughtn’t
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| .*mússənt '''mústn’t
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| .*mîtənt '''mìghtn’t
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| ===U===
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| .*táblô '''tábleau
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| .*byoôrô '''bûreau
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| .*troôssô '''troûsseau
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| .*pláttô '''pláteau
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| silent '''u''' in '''Guinea'''; -ssòw '''Guínea Bíssàù'''
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| ''illness'' '''flû
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| .*êemyoô '''êmû
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| '''cáriboû
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| '''gùrû
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| ===V===
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| -óff '''Gorbachev
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| -nyéff '''Brézhnev
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| along with many other such Slavonic names, -'''ov''' as -óff (such words were once spelt -off) '''Chékhov
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| -óff '''Mólotov
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| '''dërv
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| ===W===
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| '''guffåw
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| '''jåw
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| '''låw
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| '''clåw
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| ''animal'' '''påw
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| '''dråw
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| ''see, wood'' '''såw
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| ''little'' '''feŵ''' = ''relief'' '''pheŵ
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| '''Jeŵ
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| '''neŵ
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| ''therefore'' '''sô''' = ''needle'' '''sew
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| '''dreŵ
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| ''me'' '''yoû''' = ''sheep'' '''eŵe''' = ''tree'' '''yeŵ
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| ''London'' '''Bôw''' = ''ribbon'' '''bôw
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| ''incline'' '''bòw
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| '''còw
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| (some say -'''òw''') '''Móscôw
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| '''Dòw
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| '''wíndôw
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| '''hòw
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| '''lôw
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| '''belôw
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| '''flôw
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| '''allòw
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| -'''llôw
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| '''fállow
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| '''ẁallow
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| '''sẁallow
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| '''béllow
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| '''féllow
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| '''méllow
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| '''yéllow
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| '''bíllow
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| '''píllow
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| '''fóllow
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| '''hóllow
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| '''môw
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| '''nòw
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| ''negative'' '''nô''' = ''knowledge'' '''knôw
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| ''line'' '''rôw
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| ''argue'' '''ròw
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| '''grôw
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| '''thrôw
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| '''pròw
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| '''árrôw
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| '''bárrôw
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| '''fárrôw
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| '''hárrôw
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| '''nárrôw
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| '''spárrôw
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| ''needle'' '''sew''' = ''seeds'' '''sôw
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| ''pig'' '''sòw
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| ''foot'' '''tôe''' = ''pull'' '''tôw
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| '''stôw
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| '''bestôw
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| '''vòw
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| ===X===
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| ''data'' '''fácts''' = ''machine'' '''fáx
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| ''hasn’t'' '''lácks''' = ''careless'' '''láx
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| '''côax
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| '''hôax
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| '''wáx
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| ''dúst'' '''flécks''' = ''cord'' '''fléx
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| '''rêflex
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| '''cïrcumflex
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| '''véx
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| '''fíx
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| '''míx
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| '''síx
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| ''high'' '''jínks''' = ''curse'' '''jínx
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| '''mínx
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| '''quíncunx
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| '''lýnx
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| '''phárynx
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| '''óx
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| '''bóx
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| ''person'' '''Cóx''' = ''boat'' '''cóx
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| '''páradóx
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| '''ŏrthodóx
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| '''flúmmox
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| '''dêtóx
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| ''plural'' -lôz '''tábleaux
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| ''plural'' -rôz '''bûreaux
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| '''flúx
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| '''crúx
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| ===Y===
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| after a consonant, mostly -'''ỳ'''
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| as a suffix, may be pronounced -dỳ in days of the week such as '''Mònday''', but normally: '''dây
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| '''bïrthday
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| '''hóliday
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| '''Frîday
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| '''wêekday
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| '''wörkday
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| '''Mònday
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| '''Súnday
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| '''todây
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| '''yésterday
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| '''Sáturday
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| ''doom'' '''doômsday''' = ''Book'' '''Domesday
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| '''Wédnesday
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| '''Tûesday
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| '''Thürsday
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| '''Mâyday
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| '''hèyday
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| ''elf'' '''fèy''' = ''person'' '''Fây
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| '''gây
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| '''hây
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| '''clây
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| '''delây
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| '''plây
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| '''displây
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| ''verb'' '''mây''' = ''month'' '''Mây
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| '''sây
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| .*Línzy '''Líndsay
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| '''daresây
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| '''hêarsay
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| '''stây
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| cf. place names in -'''aî''' - *Páragwŷ '''Páraguaŷ
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| .*Yûrəgwŷ '''Ûruguaŷ
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| ''weight'' '''wèigh''' = ''how'' '''wây
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| '''awày
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| verb is two words '''breâkaway
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| verb is two words '''rúnaway
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| verb is two words '''gétaway
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| '''Gålway
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| ''cricket, farewell'' '''bŷe''' = ''2'' '''bî'''- = ''preposition'' '''bŷ
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| '''bâby
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| '''cábbie''' and words in -'''ábby''' rhyme with '''Gáby
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| '''lúllabŷ
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| ''abbot'' '''ábbey''' = ''persons'' '''Àbbey''' = '''Ábby
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| '''shábby
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| '''flábby
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| '''tábby
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| '''lóbby
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| '''Dígby
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| '''rúgby
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| '''Dólby
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| '''lâybŷ
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| ''sight'' '''sêe''' = -'''sỳ''' = -'''cỳ
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| '''Mâcy
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| '''râcy
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| cf. '''hypócrisy''' - '''thêócracy'''
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| cf. '''hypócrisy''' - '''demócracy'''
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| .*byurócracy '''bureaucracy
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| '''áccuracy
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| cf. ''verb'' '''próphesŷ''' - ''noun'' '''próphecỳ
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| '''nŏrmalcy
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| '''fáncy
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| '''chāncy
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| '''nécrománcy
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| ''person'' '''Náncy
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| ''France'' '''Nàncy
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| '''discrépancy
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| '''téndency
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| '''cúrrency
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| '''constítuency
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| '''shâdy
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| '''lâdy
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| '''trágedy
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| '''cómedy
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| '''përfidy
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| '''súbsidy
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| ''persons'' '''Àbbey''' = '''Ábby''' = ''abbot'' '''ábbey
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| '''obèy
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| ''person'' '''Fây''' = ''whimsy'' '''fèy
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| '''Hárringây''' = '''Háringèy'''
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| '''thèy
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| '''whèy
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| '''kêy
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| cf. '''lúcky''', '''tácky''' - '''láckêy
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| '''hóckey
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| '''dónkêy
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| '''mònkêy
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| '''lèy
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| állêy
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| '''válley
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| '''trólley
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| '''fólly''' rhymes with '''vólley
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| '''jóckêy
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| '''dónkêy
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| '''mònkêy
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| ''cart'' '''drây''' = ''nest, cart'' '''drèy
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| '''Jéffrêy
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| '''stŏrey''' ''floor'' BrE = '''stŏry''' AmE ''all meanings
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| '''ósprêy''' or '''ósprèy
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| cf. '''invèigh''' - '''convèy
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| '''purvèy
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| '''Hàrvêy
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| -zy '''Jërsêy
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| '''íffy
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| '''jíffy
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| '''stúffy
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| '''símplifŷ
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| '''mágnifŷ
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| '''vérifŷ
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| '''goôfy
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| '''dódgy
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| '''pódgy
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| -jy '''strátegy
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| '''fóggy
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| -njỳ -'''ngy
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| -jy '''mângy
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| -jy '''díngy
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| -ləjỳ -'''logy
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| jêó- '''geólogy
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| sôsh- '''sociólogy
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| -jy '''astrólogỳ
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| -jy '''énergy
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| -jy '''sýnergy
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| -jy '''líturgy
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| .*díng-y '''dínghy
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| .*dôwy '''dôughy
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| jó- '''geógraphy
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| cf. '''catástrophê''', '''apóstrophê''' - '''trôphy
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| '''átrophy
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| voiced '''th''', cf. '''thîgh''', unvoiced, same vowel sound: '''thŷ
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| '''telépathy
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| '''sýmpathy
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| '''lêaky
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| '''tácky
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| cf. '''jóckey''' - '''lúcky
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| '''plúcky
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| '''pôky
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| '''âbly
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| '''próbably
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| '''regréttably
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| nó- '''knóbbly
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| '''fêebly
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| '''vísibly
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| '''respónsibly
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| ''dumb'' *dúmly '''dúmbly
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| ''crumble'' '''crúmbly
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| '''nôbly
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| cf. '''bâsically''' - '''públicly
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| '''admíttedly
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| '''lîkely
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| two '''l'''s pronounced - '''sôlely
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| '''delíberately
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| '''complêtely
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| '''prîmãrily
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| '''necessãrily
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| '''temporãrily
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| '''militãrily
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| '''momentãrily
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| -z- '''êasily
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| '''quíckly
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| cf,'''állêy''' - '''állŷ
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| cf. '''públicly''' - '''económically
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| '''tópically
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| '''bâsically
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| '''mûsically
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| '''illêgally
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| '''víscerally
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| '''incidéntally
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| '''tôtally
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| ''mostly female'' '''Bíllie''' = ''either'' '''Bílly
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| two '''l'''’s pronounced '''shrílly
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| '''sílly
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| [[minimal pair]]: '''vólley''' rhymes with '''fólly
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| two '''l'''’s pronounced '''whôlly
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| two '''l'''’s pronounced '''coôlly
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| two '''l'''’s pronounced '''dúlly
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| '''fùlly
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| '''replŷ
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| '''ëarly
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| '''dêarly
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| '''nêarly
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| '''pëarly
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| '''cléverly
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| '''fãirly
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| '''bürly
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| '''vígorously
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| cf. '''Béntley''' - AmE '''evidéntly''', BrE '''évidently
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| '''áptly
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| '''trûly
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| '''Âmy
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| '''astrónomy
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| '''gá'''- '''gastrónomy
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| '''autónomy
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| cf. '''epítomê''' - '''hysteréctomy
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| .*énny '''any
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| .*ménny '''many
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| '''zâny
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| '''prógeny
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| '''shîny
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| '''Plíny
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| cf. ''tin'' '''tínny''' - ''small'' '''tîny
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| '''whîny
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| '''Jénnie''' = '''Jénny
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| '''Kénny
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| '''Lénnie''' = '''Lénny
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| '''Pénny''' = '''pénny
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| '''Jóhnnie''' = '''Jóhnny
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| '''Dónny
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| '''fúnny
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| '''súnny
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| BrE '''o''' as schwa, AmE -'''môny
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| BrE *hígémony (hard '''g'''), AmE *héjəmôny '''hegemony
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| '''îrony
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| '''pôny
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| '''Tôny
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| '''misógyny
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| '''bŏy
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| '''jŏy
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| '''tŏy
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| '''álloy
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| '''annŏy
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| '''háppy
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| AmE, when stressed syllable does not come immediately before it, -'''ãry''' or -éry, cf. -'''ery'''; BrE '''a''' as AmE or as schwa or silent; see also -'''ory''' - -'''ary
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| '''Cãry
| | :Òne hás nót, yoû mâke yŏur chŏice. |
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| '''Gáry
| | Shoes (=shoôs), gôes, dòes. Nòw fïrst sây: fínger; |
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| | Thén sây: sínger, gínger, línger. |
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| | :Rêal, zêal, mauve (*môv), gåuze and gâuge, |
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| | :Márríage, fôlìage, mìràge, âge, |
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| -shəry '''judíciary
| | Hêro, héron, quêry, véry, |
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| '''vocábulary
| | Párry, tárry, fûry, bury, |
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| | :Dòst, lóst, pôst, and dòth, clóth, lôth, |
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| | :Jób, Jôb, blóssom, bosom (*bùzm), ôath. |
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| | Fåugh, oppúgnant, kêen oppûgners, |
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| '''canãry
| | Bòwing, bôwing, bánjo-tûners |
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| '''gránary
| | :Hôlm yoû knôw, but nôes, canoes (*canoôz), |
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| ''paper'' '''stâtionery''' = ''stop'' '''stâtionary'''
| | :Pûisnê (*poôny), trûísm, ûse (*yoûss), to ûse (*yoûz)? |
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| '''díctionary
| | Thôugh the dífference sêems líttle, |
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| .*lîbry, *lîbəry - though some pronounce both '''r'''s: '''lîbrary'''
| | Wê sây áctual, but víctual, |
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| '''nécessary
| | Sêat, swéat, châste, càste, Lêigh, èight, heîght, |
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| | :Pùt, nút, gránite, ánd unîte. |
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| '''líterary
| | :Rêefer dòes nót rhŷme wíth déafer, |
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| '''suppleméntary
| | Féoffer dòes, and zéphyr, héifer. |
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| | :Dúll bùll Géoffrey, Geŏrge ate (*ét) lâte, |
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| | :Hínt, pînt, sénate, but sedâte. |
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| '''documéntary | | Gáelic, Árabic, pacífic, —''Scottish; or regular Gâelic if Irish |
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| BrE *Jányəry, AmE *Jányûãry, '''Jánuary
| | Scîence, cónscience, scientífic; |
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| | :Toûr, but òur, doûr, súccour, fŏur, |
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| BrE *Fébry, *Fébyəry, AmE *Fébyûãry, though some pronounce both '''r'''s - '''Fébruary
| | :Gás, alás, and Àrkansås. |
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| '''vãry
| | Sây manoeûvre, yacht (*yót) and vómit, |
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| '''wãry
| | Néxt omít, whích díffers fróm ít |
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| '''crŷ
| | :Bôna fîdê, álibî |
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| '''gímmickry''' rhymes with '''mímicry
| | :Gŷrate, dòwry ánd awrŷ. |
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| | Sêa, idêa, guínea, ãrêa, |
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| '''drŷ
| | Psàlm, Marìa, bút malãria. |
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| '''tåwdry
| | :Yoûth, sòuth, soúthern, cléanse and clêan, |
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| mostly '''e''' as schwa: can sound like -'''ry''' in BrE: -'''ery
| | :Dóctrine, türpentine, marìne. |
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| '''físhery
| | Compãre âlien wíth Itálian, |
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| '''fîery
| | Dándelîon wíth battálion, |
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| '''bâkery | | :Rálly wíth állŷ; yeâ, yê, |
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| | :Eŷe, Î, ây, aŷe, whèy, kêy, quaỳ! ''—ây mê, archaic expression of sadness, ây = èh |
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| '''coòkery
| | Sây avër, but éver, fêver, |
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| sh- '''chicânery
| | Neîther, léisure, skèin, recêiver. |
| | :Néver guéss - ít ís nót sâfe, |
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| | :Wê sây càlves, válves, hālf, but Râlf. |
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| ''stop'' '''stâtionary''' = ''paper'' '''stâtionery
| | Stàrry, gránary, canãry, |
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| '''conféctionery
| | Crévice, but devîce, and éyrie, |
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| | :Fâce, but préface, thén grimâce, |
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| míz- '''mísery
| | :Phlégm, phlegmátic, áss, glāss, bâss. |
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| '''cürsory''' rhymes with '''nürsery
| | Báss, làrge, tàrget, gín, gíve, vërging, |
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| '''cémetery
| | Ŏught, òust, jòust, and scòur, but scoürging; |
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| '''quêry
| | :Êar, but ëarn; and ére and téar |
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| '''véry
| | :Do (*doô=) nót rhŷme wíth hêre but héir. |
| | Mînd thê Ô of óff and óften |
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| '''brâvery | | Whích mây bê pronòunced as ŏrphan, ''—scarcely heard nowadays |
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| | :Wíth the sòund of såw and såuce; |
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| '''recòvery
| | :Ålsô sóft, lóst, clóth and cróss. |
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| '''discòvery
| | Pùdding, púddle, pùtting. Pútting? |
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| '''quêry
| | Yés: at gôlf ít rhŷmes wíth shútting. |
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| '''frŷ
| | :Réspîte, spîte, consént, resént. |
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| | :Lîable, but Pàrliament. |
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| '''bélfry
| | Séven ís rîght, but sô ís êven, |
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| '''ángry
| | Hŷphen, roúghen, néphew, Stêphen, |
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| | :Mònkey, dónkey, clerk (=Clàrk) and jërk, |
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| | :Ásp, grāsp, ẁasp, demèsne, cŏrk, wörk. |
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| '''húngry
| | Â of válour, vápid vâpour, |
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| '''mímicry''' rhymes with '''gímmickry
| | S of neŵs (-z) (compãre neŵspâper (-ss-)), |
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| | :G of gíbbet (j-), gíbbon, gíst (j-), |
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| | :Î of ántichrîst and gríst, |
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| '''gŏry
| | Díffer like divërse and dîvers, |
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| '''glŏry
| | Rívers, strîvers, shívers, fîvers. |
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| '''compúlsory
| | :Ònce, but nónce, tôll, dóll, but rôll, |
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| '''nürsery''' rhymes with '''cürsory
| | :Pólish, Pôlish, póll and pôll. |
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| '''Tŏry
| | Pronúnciation - thínk of Psŷchê! - |
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| usually pronounced -trỳ in BrE, '''ŏ''' pronounced in AmE: -'''tory
| | Ís a pâling, stòut and spîky. |
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| '''oblígatory
| | :Wôn't ít mâke yoû lose (=loôs) yŏur wíts |
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| '''óratory
| | :Wrîting grôats and sâying 'gríts'? —''no longer |
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| AmE '''láboratŏry, BrE '''labóratory
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| '''satisfáctory
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| '''réctory
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| '''diréctory
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| '''trajéctory
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| '''dŏrmitory
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| '''stŏry
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| '''hístory
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| '''prŷ
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| '''Bárry
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| ''person'' '''Cárrie''' = ''fetch'' '''cárry
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| '''Hárry
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| '''márry
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| ''earth'' '''burỳ''' = ''fruit'' '''bérry
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| AmE -'''bérry''', BrE -brêe '''bláckberry
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| '''blûeberry
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| AmE rázb-, BrE ràzb- '''rāspberry
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| '''stråwberry
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| '''lórry
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| '''sórry
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| AmE '''wörry''', BrE '''wòrry
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| '''cúrry
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| '''fürry
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| '''húrry
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| '''trŷ
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| '''påltry
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| '''pléasantry
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| '''péasantry
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| '''bígotry
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| '''áncestry
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| '''sóphistry
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| ké- '''chémistry
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| ''fruit'' '''bérrỳ''' = ''earth'' '''bury
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| '''Dûry
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| '''Drûry
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| '''lúxury
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| mostly = -'''cỳ''' -'''sỳ
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| -zêe '''êasy
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| -sêe '''grêasy
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| -zêe '''quêasy
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| like '''demócracy, thêócracy''' all -ssy '''idiosýncrasy
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| -sêe '''écstasy
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| -zêe '''chêesy
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| cf. ''noun'' '''próphecỳ''' -sêe - ''verb'' '''próphesŷ
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| -sêe '''héresy'''
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| '''demócracy''' and '''thêócracy''' rhyme with '''hypócrisy
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| '''léprosy
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| -sêe '''émbassy
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| -sêe '''fússy
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| '''dízzy''' rhymes with *bízzy '''busy
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| -sêe '''jéalousy
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| -zêe '''Sûzy''' = '''Sûsie''' = '''Sûzie''' = '''Sûsy
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| -rity '''entîrety
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| '''cíty
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| '''felícity
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| '''stupídity
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| '''reálity
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| cf. '''spécialty''' - '''speciálity
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| '''mentálity
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| '''facílity
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| '''relîabílity
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| '''flexibílity
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| '''celébrity
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| '''iníquity
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| '''antíquity
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| '''fêalty
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| cf. '''speciálity''' - '''spécialty
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| '''lŏyalty
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| '''rŏyalty
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| '''crûelty
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| silent '''h''' - '''hónesty
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| '''thïrsty
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| '''Kïrsty
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| ''goodbye, cricket'' '''bŷe''' = ''preposition'' '''bŷ''' = ''money'' '''buŷ
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| '''nâvy
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| '''wâvy
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| '''bévy
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| cf. '''lévêe, Lêvî''' - '''Lêvy
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| '''îvy
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| '''prívy
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| '''ánchovy
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| '''scürvy
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| '''sávvy
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| '''cívvy
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| '''skívvy
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| '''deŵy
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| '''wáxy
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| '''fóxy
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| '''slêazy
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| '''dâzy
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| '''hâzy
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| '''lâzy
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| '''crâzy
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| '''whêezy
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| '''dízzy
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| ===Z===
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| '''bíz'''
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| '''whízz''' or '''whíz'''
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| '''quíz'''
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| '''Óz'''
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| ''cat'' '''cáts''' = '''Kátz'''
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| ''get'' '''géts''' = [[Stan Getz|''Stan'' '''Gétz''']]
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| -ts '''kibbùtz
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| '''Strâit of Hormùz
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| '''jázz'''
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| '''razzmatázz'''
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| '''pizzázz'''
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| '''fízz'''
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| '''búzz'''
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| '''fúzz'''
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| '''zzzz'''
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| ==Double letters==
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| The following alphabetical table shows examples of how letters can be doubled in English.
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| Double letters before suffixes are used to preserve short vowel sounds as in '''flípped''' (not *flîped), '''rebélled''' (not *rebêled) and '''pégged''' (not *pêged, which would probably in any case be pronounced *pêjed). Compare '''scrâped''', past of '''scrâpe''', and '''scrápped''', from '''scráp'''. In the case of '''t''', doubling it after an unstressed vowel and before a suffix may seem unnecessary, but in some cases it can be doubled before -'''ed''': either '''tàrgeted''' or '''tàrgetted'''.
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| The sign # indicates a double letter that is rare in that position; capital-letter words indicate that the double letter in this position is only found in names. An asterisk (*) indicates a respelling to show pronunciation and an equals sign (=) introduces a [[homophone]].
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| {|class="wikitable"
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| |-
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| !letter
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| !initial
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| !medial
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| !final
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| !final + silent e | |
| |-
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| |a
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| |àardvark #<ref>'''àardvark''' and '''Transvàal''' are from '''[[Afrikaans|Afrikàans]]''', itself a further example.</ref>
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| |Transvàal #
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| |bàa #
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| |-
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| |b
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| |ríbbon
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| |ébb #
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| |Crábbe
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| |-
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| |c
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| |sóccer (*sócker), accépt (*əxépt)
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| |-
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| |d
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| |hídden
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| |ádd
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| |-
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| |e
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| |êel
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| |bêen
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| |sêe
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| |-
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| |f
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| |éffort
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| |clíff
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| |Clíffe
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| |-
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| |g
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| |aggréssion
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| |égg #
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| |Légge (= lég)
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| |-
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| |h
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| |hítchhike # (accidental)
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| |-
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| |i
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| |skìíng #
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| |Hawàìi #
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| |-
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| |j
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| |hàjj # (also spelt hàdj)
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| |-
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| |k
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| |púkka #<ref> Also accidental in '''boòkkeeper''', with a pause to indicate both k’s are pronounced.</ref>
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| |-
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| |l
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| |llàma #
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| |fílling
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| |wéll
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| |bélle
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| |-
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| |m
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| |súmmer
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| |Crámm
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| |grámme
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| |-
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| |n
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| |dínner
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| |ínn # ''pub''
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| |Ánne (= Ánn)
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| |-
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| |o
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| |oôze, oòmph #
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| |foôd, foòt, flòod, [[British English|BrE]] doŏr
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| |toô
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| |Loôe (= loô)
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| |-
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| |p
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| |flípped
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| |-
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| |q
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| |Sadìqqi #
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| |-
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| |r
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| |érror
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| |pürr
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| |-
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| |s
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| |méssy
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| |lóss
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| |crevásse
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| |-
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| |t
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| |bétter
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| |ẁatt
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| |couchétte -sh-
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| |-
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| |u
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| |vácuum # (*vákyoôm)
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| |-
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| |v
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| |flívver #
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| |-
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| |w
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| |-
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| |x
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| |[[Exxon|Éxxon]] ™ #
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| |[[Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans|Bób B. Sóxx]] #
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| |-
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| |y
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| |[[Omar Khayyam|Khayyàm]] #
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| |-
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| |z
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| |fízzy
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| |búzz
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| |}
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| ==Table of accents==
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| These accents are intended to show the pronunciation while retaining the spelling: they are not part of the language. Those on '''i''' and '''y''' show the same sound; similarly with '''u''', '''oo''' and '''w'''. Accented vowels are stressed ('''ỳ''' is normally unstressed, as in '''háppy'''). '''ā''', not in the table, means that the sound is '''à''' in British English and '''á''' in American.
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| {|class="wikitable"
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| |rowspan=2|
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| |colspan=3 align=center|'''Front vowels
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| |colspan=5 align=center|'''Back vowels
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| |-
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| !e
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| !i
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| !y<ref>When not accented, '''y''' is usually the semi-consonant of '''yoû''' and '''yés'''.</ref>
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| !a
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| !o
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| !u
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| !oo
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| !w<ref>When not accented, '''w''' is usually the semi-consonant of '''wê''' and '''wíll'''.</ref>
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| |-
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| |width=36%|The typical short sound:
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| |width=8%|pét
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| |width=8%|pít
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| |width=8%|crýpt
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| |width=8%|cát
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| |width=8%|dóg<ref>In American English this short British sound is replaced by the longer '''à''' in most positions, and by '''ŏ''' before '''r'''.</ref>
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| |width=8%|nút
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| |width=8%|
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| |width=8%|
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| |-
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| |The typical long sound, corresponding to the names of the letters A, E, I, O and U:
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| |sêe
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| |nîce
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| |mŷ
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| |nâme
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| |nôse
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| |tûne
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| |toô
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| |neŵ
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| |-
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| |The 'third' sound ('''ẁ'''- and '''qù'''- indicate the ó sound of the following '''a''', '''ẁad''' rhyming with '''qùad'''; '''òu''' and '''òw''' are diphthongs sounding like '''àù''' in '''àùtobahn''': '''nòw''' has this '''sòund'''):
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| |èight
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| |machìne
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| |quaỳ ''water'' = keỳ (kêy) ''lock''
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| |àre
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| |òther
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| |fùll, qùantity
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| |foòt
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| |ẁant<ref>Grave accents on '''w''' and on a '''u''' following a '''q''' indicate the sound of the following '''a''': '''à''' in American English, but in British the extra sound '''ó''' as in the British pronunciation of '''hót'''.</ref>
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| |-
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| |The '''ër''' sound, as in '''ër, Î dôn’t thínk sô''':
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English is notorious for its many varied, inconsistent and irregular spellings. This can be seen at its most extravagant in the field of proper nouns—for example, simply adding an 'h' to 'Maria' to make it rhyme with 'pariah', or calling oneself 'Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh' while pronouncing it 'Chumley Fanshaw'. An example of a common misspelling is 'disasterous' for 'disastrous', retaining the 'e' of 'disaster'. Many words do not turn out to have the pronunciation they appear to have: 'do' and 'to' do not rhyme with 'go' and 'no', while 'seismic', instead of being 'seezmic' or 'sayzmic', or even 'sayizmic', is in fact 'size-mic'. The above grid (reproduced and explained below) provides links to three lists and a cluster of articles devoted to these things.
To show pronunciation, these articles use correct spellings with added accent marks, instead of relying on the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). In some cases incorrect respellings are placed next to the correct ones, signalled by a preceding asterisk, like thís *thíss. The accent marks show pronunciation, thús. A table of these accents (which are not part of the language[1]) can be found below; there is also an IPA key at English phonemes. Where there is more than one accent, the first is stressed, and the same is true after a hyphen, so in the respelling of Tchaikóvsky, *Chŷ-kóffskỳ, it is 'kóff' that has the main stress. (Another way of showing new stress is with a bar: Tchaî|kóvsky.) A sentence from the preceding paragraph can thus be rewritten as follows: "An example of a common misspelling is *disāsterous for disāstrous, retaining the E of disāster." Respelling may be used to exemplify an incorrect spelling, or show a correct pronunciation, or a bit of both. Unlike the IPA, where there can only be one version per pronunciation, as there must be an unambiguous one-to-one correspondence, there can be many respellings: if *disāsterous for disāstrous is a common mistake, we can also represent the pronunciation as *dizāstrus or *dizāstrous or *dizāstrəss (with 'ə', a special character – the only one used – for schwa); or we can contrast British English *dizàstrus with American *dizástrus.
Particular attention is given to homophones, words with the same pronunciation but different meanings. English is rich in homophones, many of which are also homonyms, having also the same spelling, as, for example, cán able, tin (the italicised words suggest meanings, in this case two); while homographs are words with the same spelling whose meanings are distinguished by different pronunciations.
Also of special note are words that many writers incorrectly divide. ôver and dûe, for example, combine to form overdûe, without a space in the middle. Such examples are included with ‘one word’ alongside them: alongsîde one word.
An equals sign = is placed between homophones (in some cases the approximately equals sign ≈ is more appropriate). Homographs and other similar-looking words are included after 'cf.' (Latin conferre, 'compare').
Some words from other languages, in most cases French, may sometimes appear in English with accents from those languages. Here, such spellings are shown using bold italics: touchè may be written with a French accent: touché *tooshây.
The apostrophe is an important part of spelling and so it is treated as a letter, with its own place at the end of the alphabet.
Fragments of words are in bold when correctly spelt: Ukrâine has -âine, not -âne.
Words in italics are used to suggest meanings (e.g. sêa water = sêe vision, where the equals sign denotes identical pronunciation). Words beginning with an initial capital may have no word in italics following: these are names of people, either personal or family, and/or commercial or place names. Such words are included because they often contrast with the spellings of homophones: a bank clerk might be named Clàrk or Clàrke, but probably not 'Clerk' (though BrE clerk = Clàrk/Clàrke). Unusual spellings can be explained by regular ones: Cloúgh = Clúff. An American called Maurìce Mŏrris could just as well be called Mórris Maurice ("Morris Morris") in Britain, where Maurice = Mórris (although it would be putting the conventional surname before the conventional given name).
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In the navigation table above (reproduced at the top of each article in the cluster) the cells in each row link as follows:
- Top row: articles on each letter and its use in English. There are similar articles on GH, the apostrophe and the hyphen.
- Second row: alphabetical lists of of commonly misspelt and/or mispronounced words, alongside more regular words they may be confused with (words beginning with an apostrophe are here). Some incorrect spellings are also listed, signalled by an asterisk: *dispánd disbánd means that the word is 'disband'. (The bottom row is devoted entirely to misspellings and typos.)
- Third row: retroalphabetical lists, arranged alphabetically according to the final letter of the word and continuing backwards through it:
- In the retroalphabetical lists the headword is on the right. In this way, suffixes and other word endings can be seen grouped together, just as prefixes can be seen in normal alphabetical order. So, instead of ádd båll coúsin, we have réplicA fláB plástiC; and so for mûsiC, see under -C, for mûsicaL, see under -L, for pàrticlE, see under -E, and so on.
- Some suffixes are included separately; their pronunciation may or may not apply to following words ("always -ãrian" means there is no other pronunciation of -ãrian).
- Throughout, the apostrophe is treated as the last letter, after Z. (Words ending in an apostrophe are also here.)
- For clarity, italic association words are to the left of the example word:
- woman mâid = make mâde
- Some incorrect spellings are listed retroalphabetically, in which case the misspelling goes on the right, just as in the alphabetical list:
- wêasel *wêasal
- Bottom row: common misspellings including typos (blue-linked for checking purposes), followed by the correct versions.
Two main varieties are distinguished: British English (BrE), that of the UK and much of the Commonwealth (see also Commonwealth English), and American English (AmE), that of the USA and Canada (without the cåught = cót merger that has occurred in some parts of North America).
Unlike dictionaries, the lists include personal and place names for their own sake and for contrast.
Table of accents
These accents are intended to show the pronunciation while retaining the spelling: they are not part of the language. Those on i and y show the same sound; similarly with u, oo and w. Accented vowels are stressed (ỳ is normally unstressed, as in háppy). ā, not in the table, means that the sound is à in standard British and Commonwealth pronunciations but á in American and other British and Commonwealth speech.
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These sentences show how the accents may be used, for example, when teaching pronunciation. Words without accents are monosyllables with the schwa sound, a neutral grunt.
The usual short sound, acute accent:
The gínger cát was jéalous of the bláck cát: howéver, the tábby was a véry dífferent mátter - the stúff of réveries, ín fáct.
The usual long sound, circumflex accent:
Sây mŷ nâme thrêe tîmes with stŷle and Î’ll gô and fînd a tûne to plây for yoû.
The third sound, grave accent:
Christìna Grèy shoùld (and dòes?) lòve her mòther and fàther.
The ër sound, umlaut:
But fïrst, Mÿrtle, fürther dïrty, ïrksome and distürbing wörk for the nürses.
The ŏr sound (sůre here is with British pronunciation = Shåw), the ring, or half-ring:
Sůre yoû ŏught to cråwl ón åll fŏurs, m’lŏrd?
Irregular, without accent, instead with respelling:
Many women? Any woman! (pronounced: *Ménny wímmin? Énny wùman!)
Double letters
The following alphabetical table shows examples of how letters can be doubled in English.
Double consonant letters before suffixes are used (as often elsewhere) to preserve short vowel sounds, as in flípped (not *flîped), rebélled (not *rebêled) and pégged (not *pêged, which if regular would in any case be pronounced *pêjed). Compare scrâped, past of scrâpe, and scrápped, from scráp. In the case of t, doubling it after an unstressed vowel and before a suffix may seem unnecessary, but in some cases it can be doubled before -ed: either tàrgeted or tàrgetted (but always commítted).
The sign # indicates a double letter that is rare in that position; capital-letter words indicate that the double letter in this position is only found in names. An asterisk (*) indicates a respelling to show pronunciation, and an equals sign (=) introduces a homophone.
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The names of the letters of the alphabet are rarely written out in English (a simple capital being the normal usage: "with a C, not a K") so that, unlike in many other languages, most of their spellings have a rather unofficial status. But they can be shown as follows, using real words where possible:
A: â (the indefinite article, when stressed), èh? what?
B: bê exist, bêe sting
C: occasionally cêe; sêe look, sêa ship
D: Dêe River, surname
E: ê as in êmail, ê-mail
F: éff as in the euphemism éff óff
G: gêe up, exclamation *jêe
H: âitch as in drópping your âitches
I: Î me, eŷe vision
J: jây bird
K: Kây person
L: él elevated railway (AmE)
M: ém dash
N: én dash
O: ôwe debt, ôh! exclamation
P: pêa pod, pêe urine, p pence (BrE)
Q: queûe line, cûe ball, prompt
R: àre be, BrE àh exclamation
S: occasionally éss
T: têa drink, têe golf, tì do-re-mi
U: yoû me, eŵe sheep
V: Vêe Bobby
W: "doúble you" (*dúblyu; cf. vácûum, which actually does have a doúble Û)
X: éx- past
Y: whŷ reason (voiced w, as in BrE)
Z: BrE zéd, AmE zêe
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
This poem on pronunciation irregularities was first published in 1920. Accent marks, respellings and editorial comments have been added to reflect current British English pronunciation. The unadorned poem, with an introduction, can be found here.
The Châós (*câyóss)
Dêarest crêature ín creâtion
Stúdying English (*Ínglish) pronunciâtion,
- Î wíll têach yoû ín mŷ vërse
- Sòunds lîke cŏrpse, cŏrps (*cŏr), hŏrse and wörse.
Î wíll kêep yoû, Sûsy, busy (*bízzy),
Mâke yŏur héad wíth hêat grôw dízzy;
- Têar ín eŷe, yŏur dréss yŏu'll téar;
- Quêer, fãir sêer (*sêe-er), hêar mŷ prãyer.
Prây, consôle yŏur lòving pôet,
Mâke mŷ côat loòk neŵ, dêar, sew (=sô) ít!
- Júst compãre heàrt, hêar and hëard,
- Dîes and dîet (*dîət), lŏrd and wörd.
Swŏrd (*sŏrd) and swård, retâin and Brítain
[Mînd the látter hòw ít's wrítten].
- Mâde hás nót the sòund of báde,
- Sây–said (*séd), pây–pâid, lâid but pláid.
Nòw Î sůrely wíll nót plâgue yoû
Wíth súch wörds as vâgue and âgûe,
- Bút bê cãreful hòw yoû spêak,
- Sây: gúsh, bùsh, steâk, strêak, breâk, blêak,
Prêvious, précious, fûchsia (*feŵsha), vîa,
Récipê, pîpe, stúdding-sâil, choîr (=quîre);
- Wôven, óven, hòw and lôw,
- Scrípt, recêipt (*rissêet), shoe (=shoô), pôem, tôe.
Sây, expécting fråud and tríckerỳ:
Dåughter (*dåwter), làughter (*làfter) ánd Terpsíchorê (*Terpsíckery),
- Brànch, rànch, mêasles, tópsails, aîsles (*îles),
- Míssîles, símilês, revîles.
Whôlly (=hôly), hólly, sígnal, sîgning (*sîning),
Sâme, exámining, but mîning,
- Schólar (*scóllar), vícar, and cigàr,
- Sôlar, mîca, wår and fàr.
From "desîre": desîrable - ádmirable from "admîre",
Lúmber, plúmber, biêr, but brîer,
- Tópsham, broûgham (*breŵəm), renòwn, but knôwn,
- Knówledge, dòne, lône, góne, nòne, tône,
Òne (=wòn), anémonê, Balmóral,
Kítchen, lîchen (=lîken), låundry, laurel (lórrel).
- Gërtrude, Gërman (J-), wínd and wînd,
- Beau (=Bô), kînd, kíndred, queûe, mankînd,
Tŏrtoise (*tŏrtus), türquŏise, chámois-léather (*shámwà-),
Rêading, Réading, hêathen, héather.
- Thís phonétic lábyrínth
- Gíves móss, grôss, broòk, brôoch, nînth, plínth.
Háve yoû éver yét endéavoured
To (=toô)[10] pronòunce revêred and sévered,
- Dêmon, lémon, ghoûl, fòul, sôul,
- Pêter, pétrol and patrôl?
Bíllet dòes nót énd lîke bállèt (*bállây);
Boûquèt, ẁallet, mállet, chálèt.
- Blòod and flòod are nót lîke foôd,
- Nŏr ís môuld lîke shoùld and woùld (=woòd).
Bánquet ís nót nêarly pàrquèt,
Whích exáctly rhŷmes wíth khàkì. —not usually nowadays
- Díscòunt, vîscòunt (*vîcòunt), lôad and brŏad,
- Towård, to fŏrward, to (=toô) rewård,
Rícochèted and crôchèting, crôquèt?
Rîght! Yŏur pronunciâtion's OK.[11]
- Ròunded, woûnded, griêve and síeve,
- Friénd and fiênd, alîve and líve.
Ís yŏur R corréct ín hîgher?
Kêats assërts ít rhŷmes Thalîa.
- Hûgh, but húg, and hoòd, but hoôt,
- Buŏyant, mínute, bút minûte.
Sây abscíssion wíth precísion,
Nòw: posítion ánd transítion;
- Woùld ít tálly wíth mŷ rhŷme
- Íf Î méntioned páradîgm?
Twòpence, thréepence, têase are êasy,
But cêase, crêase, grêase and grêasy?
- Cŏrnice, nîce, valìse, revîse,
- Râbíes, but lúllabîes.
Óf súch púzzling wörds as nåuseous,
Rhŷming wéll wíth cåutious, tŏrtious,
- Yoû'll envélop lísts, Î hôpe,
- Ín a línen énvelôpe.
Woùld yoû lîke some mŏre? Yoû'll háve ít!
Áffidâvit, Dâvid, dávit.
- To (=toô) abjûre, to përjure. Shèik
- Dòes nót sòund lîke Czéch but âche.
Líberty, lîbrary, hêave and héaven,
Râchel, lóch, moustàche, eléven.
- Wê sây hállôwed, bút allòwed,
- Pêople, léopard, tôwed but vòwed.
Màrk the dífference, moreôver,
Betwêen mover (*moôver), plòver, Dôver.
- Lêaches, brêeches, wîse, precîse,
- Chálíce, bút polìce and lîce,
Cámel, cònstable, únstâble,
Prínciple, discîple, lâbel.
- Pétal, pênal, and canál,
- Wâit, surmîse, pláit, prómíse, pál,
Sûit, suìte, rûín. Cïrcuít, cónduít
Rhŷme wíth "shïrk ít" and "beyónd ít". —still?
- Bút ít ís nót hàrd to téll
- Whŷ ít's påll, måll, but Páll Máll.
Múscle, múscular, gâol (=jâil), îron,
Tímber, clîmber, búllion, lîon,
- Wörm and stŏrm, chaise (*shézz), châós, chãir,
- Sénator, spectâtor, mãyor,
Îvy, prívy, fâmous; clámour
Hás thê Â of dráchm and hámmer.
- Pùssy, hússy ánd posséss,
- Désert, but desërt, addréss.
Gôlf, wolf (=Woòlf), còuntenance, lieuténants
Hŏist ín lieû of flágs léft pénnants.
- Coùrier, cŏurtier, tomb (*toôm), bómb, cômb,
- Còw, but Cowper (=Coôper), sòme and hôme.
"Sôlder, sôldier! Blòod ís thícker",
Quôth hê, "than liqueûr ŏr líquor",
- Mâking, ít ís sád but trûe,
- Ín bravàdo, múch ado (*adoô).
Strânger dòes nót rhŷme wíth ánger,
Neîther dòes devòur wíth clángour. —neither does anger: *áng-gə
- Pîlot, pívot, gåunt, but āunt,
- Fónt, frònt, wônt, wånt, gránd and grānt.
Àrsenic, specífic, scênic,
Rélic, rhétoric, hygìênic.
- Goòseberry, goôse, and clôse, but clôse,
- Páradise, rîse, rôse, and dôse.
Sây invèigh, nèigh, but invêigle,
Mâke the látter rhŷme wíth êagle.
- Mînd! Mêándering but mêan,
- Válentîne and mágazìne.
Ánd Î bét yoû, dêar, a pénny,
Yoû sây máni-(fôld) lîke many (*ménny),
- Whích ís wróng. Sây râpier, pìêr,
- Tîer (òne who tîes), but tìêr.
Àrch, archângel; prây, dòes ërring
Rhŷme wíth hérring ŏr wíth stïrring?
- Príson, bîson, tréasure trôve,
- Trêason, hóver, còver, côve,
Persevêrance, séverance. Ríbald
Rhŷmes (but pîebåld dòesn't) wíth níbbled.
- Phâeton, paêan, gnát, ghåt, gnåw,
- Liên, psŷchic, shóne, bône, pshåw.
Dôn't bê dòwn, mŷ ôwn, but roúgh ít,
Ánd distínguish bùffèt, búffet;
- Broôd, stoòd, roôf, roòk, schoôl, woòl, boôn,
- Worcester (*Wùster), Boleýn, to (=toô) impûgn.
Sây ín sòunds corréct and stërling
Hëarse, hêar, heàrken, yêar and yëarling —yëar and yêarling are about as likely
Êvil, dévil, mézzotínt,
- Mînd the Z (zéd)! (A géntle hínt.)
Nòw yoû nêed nót pây atténtion
To (=toô) súch sòunds as Î dôn't méntion,
- Sòunds lîke pŏres, påuse, pŏurs and påws,
- Rhŷming wíth the prônòun yŏurs;
Nŏr are próper nâmes inclûded,
Thôugh Î óften hëard, as yoû díd,
- Fúnny rhŷmes to ûnicŏrn,
- Yés, yoû knôw them, Våughan and Stråchan —nowadays regularised to *Strákhən
Nô, mŷ mâiden, cŏy and còmely,
Î dôn't ẁant to spêak of Chòlmondeley (*Chúmley).
- Nô. Yét Froûde compãred wíth pròud
- Ís nô bétter thán McLeod (*McClòud).
But mînd trívial and vîal,
Trîpod, mênial, denîal,
- Trôll and trólley, réalm and rêam,
- Schédule, míschief, schísm, and schême.
Àrgil, gíll, Argŷll, gíll. Sůrely
Mây bê mâde to rhŷme wíth Råleigh,
- Bút yŏu're nót suppôsed to sây
- Pìquèt rhŷmes wíth sóbriquèt.
Hád thís ínvalid inválid
Wörthless dócuments? Hòw pállid,
- Hòw uncoûth hê, còuchant, loòked,
- Whén for Pŏrtsmouth Î had boòked!
Zeûs, Thêbes, Thales, Aphrodîtê,
Páramour, enámoured, flîghty,
- Épisôdes, antípodês,
- Ácquiésce, and óbsequies.
Plêase dôn't mònkey wíth the gêyser,
Dôn't pêel 'tâters wíth mŷ râzor,
- Rāther sây ín áccents pûre:
- Nâture, státure ánd matûre.
Pîous, ímpìous, límb, clîmb, glúmly,
Worsted (wùsted), wörsted, crúmbly, dúmbly,
- Cónquer, cónquest, vàse, phâse, fán,
- Ẁan, sedán and àrtisan.
The TH (*têe-âitch) wíll sůrely troúble you
Mŏre than R, CH ŏr W (*àh, cêe-âitch ŏr doúble-û)
- Sây thén thêse phonétic géms:
- Thómas, thŷme, Therêsa, Thames (*Témz).
Thómpson, Chátham, Wåltham, Stréatham,
Thére are mŏre but Î forgét 'em -
- Wâit! Î've gót ít: Ánthony,
- Lîghten yŏur anxîety.
Thê archâíc wörd ålbêít
Does nót rhŷme wíth èight - yoû sêe ít;
- Wíth and fŏrthwith, òne hás vŏice,
- Òne hás nót, yoû mâke yŏur chŏice.
Shoes (=shoôs), gôes, dòes. Nòw fïrst sây: fínger;
Thén sây: sínger, gínger, línger.
- Rêal, zêal, mauve (*môv), gåuze and gâuge,
- Márríage, fôlìage, mìràge, âge,
Hêro, héron, quêry, véry,
Párry, tárry, fûry, bury,
- Dòst, lóst, pôst, and dòth, clóth, lôth,
- Jób, Jôb, blóssom, bosom (*bùzm), ôath.
Fåugh, oppúgnant, kêen oppûgners,
Bòwing, bôwing, bánjo-tûners
- Hôlm yoû knôw, but nôes, canoes (*canoôz),
- Pûisnê (*poôny), trûísm, ûse (*yoûss), to ûse (*yoûz)?
Thôugh the dífference sêems líttle,
Wê sây áctual, but víctual,
Sêat, swéat, châste, càste, Lêigh, èight, heîght,
- Pùt, nút, gránite, ánd unîte.
- Rêefer dòes nót rhŷme wíth déafer,
Féoffer dòes, and zéphyr, héifer.
- Dúll bùll Géoffrey, Geŏrge ate (*ét) lâte,
- Hínt, pînt, sénate, but sedâte.
Gáelic, Árabic, pacífic, —Scottish; or regular Gâelic if Irish
Scîence, cónscience, scientífic;
- Toûr, but òur, doûr, súccour, fŏur,
- Gás, alás, and Àrkansås.
Sây manoeûvre, yacht (*yót) and vómit,
Néxt omít, whích díffers fróm ít
- Bôna fîdê, álibî
- Gŷrate, dòwry ánd awrŷ.
Sêa, idêa, guínea, ãrêa,
Psàlm, Marìa, bút malãria.
- Yoûth, sòuth, soúthern, cléanse and clêan,
- Dóctrine, türpentine, marìne.
Compãre âlien wíth Itálian,
Dándelîon wíth battálion,
- Rálly wíth állŷ; yeâ, yê,
- Eŷe, Î, ây, aŷe, whèy, kêy, quaỳ! —ây mê, archaic expression of sadness, ây = èh
Sây avër, but éver, fêver,
Neîther, léisure, skèin, recêiver.
- Néver guéss - ít ís nót sâfe,
- Wê sây càlves, válves, hālf, but Râlf.
Stàrry, gránary, canãry,
Crévice, but devîce, and éyrie,
- Fâce, but préface, thén grimâce,
- Phlégm, phlegmátic, áss, glāss, bâss.
Báss, làrge, tàrget, gín, gíve, vërging,
Ŏught, òust, jòust, and scòur, but scoürging;
- Êar, but ëarn; and ére and téar
- Do (*doô=) nót rhŷme wíth hêre but héir.
Mînd thê Ô of óff and óften
Whích mây bê pronòunced as ŏrphan, —scarcely heard nowadays
- Wíth the sòund of såw and såuce;
- Ålsô sóft, lóst, clóth and cróss.
Pùdding, púddle, pùtting. Pútting?
Yés: at gôlf ít rhŷmes wíth shútting.
- Réspîte, spîte, consént, resént.
- Lîable, but Pàrliament.
Séven ís rîght, but sô ís êven,
Hŷphen, roúghen, néphew, Stêphen,
- Mònkey, dónkey, clerk (=Clàrk) and jërk,
- Ásp, grāsp, ẁasp, demèsne, cŏrk, wörk.
 of válour, vápid vâpour,
S of neŵs (-z) (compãre neŵspâper (-ss-)),
- G of gíbbet (j-), gíbbon, gíst (j-),
- Î of ántichrîst and gríst,
Díffer like divërse and dîvers,
Rívers, strîvers, shívers, fîvers.
- Ònce, but nónce, tôll, dóll, but rôll,
- Pólish, Pôlish, póll and pôll.
Pronúnciation - thínk of Psŷchê! -
Ís a pâling, stòut and spîky.
- Wôn't ít mâke yoû lose (=loôs) yŏur wíts
- Wrîting grôats and sâying 'gríts'? —no longer
Ìt's a dàrk abýss ŏr túnnel
Streŵn wíth stônes lîke rôwlock, gúnwale,
- Íslington, and Îsle of Wîght,
- Hòusewîfe, vërdíct and indîct.
Dôn't yoû thínk sô, rêader, ràther,
Sâying làther, bâther, fàther?
- Fînally, whích rhŷmes wíth enoúgh,
- Thôugh, throûgh, bòugh, cóugh, hóugh, sòugh, toúgh??
Hiccoúgh hás the sòund of súp.
Mŷ advîce ís: GÍVE ÍT ÚP!
Notes
- ↑ A few different accents, mostly from French, sometimes crop up in English, however; see French words in English.
- ↑ When not accented, y is usually the semi-consonant of yoû and yés.
- ↑ When not accented, w is usually the semi-consonant of wê and wíll.
- ↑ In American English this short British sound is replaced by the longer à in most positions, and by ŏ before r.
- ↑ Grave accents on w and on a u following a q indicate the sound of the following a: à in American English, but in British the extra sound ó as in the British pronunciation of hót.
- ↑ å and ŏ show the same sound: ideally the o too would have a ring over it, but this symbol is not available, so ŏ is used instead.
- ↑ àardvark and Transvàal are from Afrikàans, itself a further example.
- ↑ With a pause to indicate both k’s are pronounced.
- ↑ Also representing a Welsh sound in place names like Llandudno (-dídno) and Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwrndrobllllantysiliogogogóch.
- ↑ Strong form of to, not normal in a verb's infinitive, necessitated by the metre.
- ↑ The pronunciation required by the metre is "ôkay", though the K is normally the stressed syllable: okây.
