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a
/ə/, about, between ah and uh, ad is pronounced almost like "odd"
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i
(Before vowel and not accented) /j/, Y as in yes
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ē
Sounds an A saying its name
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ī
Sounds an E saying its name, /ɪ:/, eat
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ō
Sounds an O saying its name, /əʊ/, clover
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ae
(Diphthong) sounds I sayings its name, /aɪ/, aisle
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au
(Diphthong) /aʊ/, brown, how
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oe
(Diphthong) /ɔɪ/, oil, boy
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bs
(At the end of word) the B sounds a P
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bt
(At the end of a word) the B sounds a P
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ch
/k/, pronounced separately as in archaic, not like in church
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ph
up hill, never sounds an F in philosophy
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th
Pronounced separately as in pot hole, never like this or theater
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c
/k/, always hard as in cat
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g
/g/, always hard as in get, never soft like adage
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r
Rolled like in the Spanish and Italian languages
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s
Always voiceless as in see, never voiced as in ease
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v
/w/, equivalent to an English W, never sounding an English V (sounds U as a consonant), some texts will write the "v" as a "u" when it serves as a vowel
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x
Equivalent to an English Ks as in box, never like exert
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(y)
Rarely exists in Latin except in words borrowed from Greek
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(z)
Rarely exists in Latin except in words borrowed from Greek
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