WORLDLY SOUNDS

1 . /ɑː/ 2. /æ/ 3. /ɒ/ 4. /ɑ/ 5. /ɪ/ 6. /ə/

Ask Ask Hot Hot Wanted Wanted
7. /ɔː/ 8. /ʊə/ 9. /juː/ 10. /uː/ 11. /ɜː/ 12. /ɜːr/
Poor Poor New New Work Work Author
13. /əʊ/ 14. /oʊ/ 15. /l/ 16. /ɫ/ 17. /t/ 18. /ɾ/ 19. /t/ 20. /ʔ/ Zola Maziku Menga
Open Open Love Coal Better Better Certain Certain

1-GB The diphthong 8 /ʊə/ has merged with 7 /ɔː/ in the pronunciation of many words
2-US even in RP. The process of a diphthong becoming a monophthong is called
3-GB Monophthonging.
4-US Work 11 /wɜːk / Non-rhotic.
5-GB Work 12 /wɜːrk / Rhotic.
6-US Accents of English can be either Rhotic or Non-rhoticː
9-GB Rhotic speakers pronounce / r / everywhere it is written (Knight et al.,2007).
10-US There are two L sounds in Englishː Light and dark. A plethora of learners have
13-GB been confused for the fact that most dictionaries represent both sounds with the
14-US same symbol 15 / l /. Dark L is represented by the symbol 16 / ɫ /.
17-GB The flapping or tapping, also known as t-voicing / ɾ /. The flapping of / t /is
18-US sometimes perceived as the replacement of / t / with / d /. For example, the word butter pronounced with
flapping may be heard as budder.
20 /ʔ/ You can hear it by making the sound “uh-oh” /ˌʌˈəʊ /. It is called a Glottal Plosive or Stop, is a stop made by
rapidly closing the vocal folds.
Arthur Hughes et al. described the glottal stop as “a form of plosive in which the closure is made by bringing the vocal
folds together, as holding one´s breath(glottis is not a speech organ, but the space between vocal folds)”.
(“English Accents and Dialects”, 2013). The glottal can be a variant of 19 /t /.