Consonants in English phonetics

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[ŋ] ng, k before n ng king, sing, singer, singing,
bang, long, wrong, tongue;
finger, anger, angry, longer,
longest, single
[f] -gh, -ph f phone, photograph, phrase,
phenomenon, biography
[θ] -th s (weak) thank, thick, think, thought,
thunder, author, breath,
bath;
[ð] -th z (weak) this, that, then, though,
father, brother, breathe,
bathe
[s] -s, -sc, -c s (strong) swan, base, chase, gas,
atlas, takes;
[z] -z, -s z (strong) zoom, zero, zebra, use,
does, busy, easy, zoo, zip;
[ʃ] -ch, -sh sch champagne, charlatan, chef,
chic, machine, cache;
share, she, shine, shoe, fish,
cash, push, punish;
[tʃ] -ch, -tch tsch chain, check, chief, choose,
teacher, much, church;
kitchen, catch, match,
watch, pitch, stretch
[j] -dg dj bridge, edge, judge,
knowledge, budget, badger;