Pronunciation key
The British pronunciations given are these of younger speakers of General British. This includes RP (Received Pronunciation) and a range of similar accents which are not strongly regional. The American pronunciation chosen are also as for as possible the most general (not associated with any particular region). If there is a difference between British and American pronunciations of a word, the British one is given first, with NAmE before the American pronunciation.
Consonants
| p | pen /pen/ | s | see /si:/ |
| b | bad /bad/ | /zu:/ | |
| t | tea /ti:/ | /f | she /fu:/ |
| d | did /did/ | /visioh /visn/ | |
| k | cat /ket/ | h | hat /hat/ |
| g | get /get/ | /man /man/ | |
| t | chain /tlem/ | n | now /nao/ |
| d3 | jam /d3am/ | 0 | sing /s1/ |
| f | fall /f/ | /l | leg /leg/ |
| v | van /van/ | r | red /red/ |
| 0 | thin /0n/ | j | yes /jes/ |
| 0 | this /0s/ | w | wet /wet/ |
This symbol (r) indicates that British pronunciation will have /r/ only if a vowel sound follows directly at the beginning of the next word, as in faraway; otherwise the /r/ is omitted. For American English all the /r/ sounds should be pronounced.
/x/ represents a fricative sound as in box for Scottish loch, Irish lough.