Steward, an English teacher at EASL school once told me: “A good way to remember English pronunciation is to collect words that share the same sound”. And there we go !!!
phoneme /ɜ/
bird /bɜrd/burst /bɜrst/
girl /gɜrl/
purpose /ˈpɜr pəs/
purchase /ˈpɜr tʃəs/
flurry /ˈflɜr i/
phoneme /iː/
eat /iːt/see /siː/
need /niːd/
retrieve /rɪˈtriːv/
phoneme /ɪ/
it /ɪt/big /bɪg/
finish /ˈfɪn ɪʃ/
wind /wɪnd/
phoneme /eə/
pear UK:/peə/ US:/peər/phoneme /əʊ/ and /oʊ/
go UK: /ɡəʊ/ US: /ɡoʊ/no UK: /nəʊ/ US: /noʊ/
oat UK: /əʊt/ US: /oʊt/
home UK: /həʊm/ US: /hoʊm/
open UK: /ˈəʊpən/ US: /ˈoʊpən/
nose UK:/nəʊz/ US:/noʊz/
cold UK: /kəʊld/ US: /koʊld/
boat UK: /bəʊt/ US: /boʊt/
road UK: /rəʊd/ US: /roʊd/
show UK: /ʃəʊ/ US: /ʃoʊ/
phone UK: /ˈfəʊn/ US: /foʊn/
dough UK: /ˈdəʊ/ US: /doʊ/
phoneme /z/
nose UK:/nəʊz/ US:/noʊz/busy /ˈbɪzi/
to lose /luːz/
phoneme /tʃ/
church /tʃɜːtʃ $ tʃɜːrtʃ/stat‧ue /ˈstætʃuː/
ma‧ture /məˈtʃʊə $ -ˈtʃʊr/
