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2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Pronunciation

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   Speakers of non-rhotic accents, as in much of Australia, England, New Zealand, and Wales, will pronounce the second syllable [fəd], those with the father–bother merger, as in much of the US and Canada, will pronounce the first syllable [ˈɑːks], and those with the cot–caught merger but without the father–bother merger, as in Scotland ...

3. Phonological history of English - Wikipedia

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   Mary–marry–merry merger: /ɛər/ and /ær/ merge to /ɛr/. Hurry-furry merger: /ʌr/ and /ɜr/ merge to [ɚ]. Mirror-nearer merger /ɪr/ and /ɪər/ merge or are very similar, the merged vowel can be quite variable. T-glottalization becomes increasingly widespread in Great Britain. [36] Various treatments of the th sounds, the dental ...

4. Help:IPA/English - Wikipedia

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   For example, you may pronounce cot and caught, do and dew, or marry and merry the same. This often happens because of dialect variation (see our articles English phonology and International Phonetic Alphabet chart for English dialects). If this is the case, you will pronounce those symbols the same for other words as well. [1]

5. Pronunciation - Wikipedia

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   Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language. [1] (Pronunciation ⓘ)

6. English-language vowel changes before historic /l/ - Wikipedia

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   In the history of English phonology, there have been many diachronic sound changes affecting vowels, especially involving phonemic splits and mergers.A number of these changes are specific to vowels which occur before /l/, especially in cases where the /l/ is at the end of a syllable (or is not followed by a vowel).

7. Silent e - Wikipedia

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   Variably by dialect and even word, the / j / in this / j uː / may drop (rune / ˈ r uː n /, lute / ˈ l uː t /), causing a merger with / uː /; in other cases, the /j/ coalesces with the preceding consonant (issue / ˈ ɪ s. j uː / → / ˈ ɪ ʃ uː /), meaning that the silent e can affect the quality of a consonant much earlier in the ...