Which in writing is often spelt with a y like in yet, yesterday or YouTube. It’s actually the /j/ phoneme or the /j/ sound. Remember in phonetics this is not the letter j it just looks like the letter j. However, the letter j normally makes a /ʤ/ sound. But the /j/ sound is particularly confusing because it looks like the letter j, in fact we use the letter j. Most of the time this is not a problem because the letters make more or less the sound that you would expect like /t/, /d/, /e/ and many others. Manoor, yes you are right! It is even more confusing in this case because a lot of the same letters can be used in both normal writing and IPA transcription. In the word ‘of’ the o makes the /ɒ/ sound represented by this symbol. In the word ‘or’ the ‘o’ with the r makes an /ɔː/ sound represented by this symbol in phonetics. Jap, yes both the words ‘or’ and ‘of’ have the letter o but we pronounce the letter o, as with all vowels, in several different ways, that is one of the hardest things about English, it is not phonetic.īut, the phonetic alphabet and IPA transcription is there to help with that, but don’t get it confused with normal writing. In all these comments I can see that people are getting confused between how we spell words in normal English writing and IPA transcription, which is how we can put pronunciation into writing. Seoundu Kim says: But let me ask you, how am I supposed to know the /əʊ/ sound when I try to pronounce go? Is there any hint of when to pronounce /əʊ/? My replies Am I right?ĭarth Says: English Language Club.Is /ə/ an English letter? because it isn’t in the English alphabet. It is simple, the letter /j/ represents “y” sound like Yet, Yesterday and YouTube and the /ʤ/ represents the j sound like Jug and Gin. Jap says: What’s the difference in pronunciation between “or” and “of”? According to phonetics it is written with different symbols but the vowel sound is the same in both. The difference between spelling an IPA Transcription is something that comes up again and again. I get a lot of comments on the videos on my YouTube channel.
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