American English Pronunciation Workbook

Examples of the Consonant [b]


Word Initial

1.   [bi]

what it should be

2.   [bæd]

bad stuff

3.   [bət]

but

4.   [baɪ]

you look through and you say oh okay you know you're looking for things to buy well then you got a two whole

5.   [bʊk]

actually pretty much know where that's why i want that's why i want a book

6.   [bəmps]

bumps

7.   [bæk]

and i could see if i was going downtown and coming back

8.   [baɪ]

because they're they have enough money to buy new things and they don't want to necessarily send it down i don't think to the salvation army or the

9.   [mbəθ]

both of us decided okay

10.   [bæk]

wanna go back

11.   [bæk]

and get back to a

12.   [bɪzi]

um and his wife's an opera singer so she's real busy and

13.   [bɪɡ]

you know how it is some of us went for the big bucks and some of us went for the time off

14.   [bɛst]

you've gotta vote with the candidate who's gonna put the best justices on the supreme court

15.   [bæk]

as back into

16.   [bəʔt]

there really is still and it's sad but

17.   [bust]

yknow restaurants and and and museums and we get all the good movies now and wexner center's been a big boost and

18.   [bikɔz]

because when you go to estate sales

19.   [bikəz]

my dad knows me real well mainly because i'm doing almost a mirror image of what he did when he grew up

20.   [bɪtwin]

the difference between development

21.   [bitwin]

to get half way between

22.   [bitwin]

um dad is my dad's not centrally located between the ashland office

23.   [bɔɹeɪŋ]

so it gets real boring i mean going down hill is really fun but going back ups pain in the neck

24.   [baɪɡpaɪp]

bagpipe playing

25.   [bikɪz]

because there's times when i don't love my husband i wanna smack him and he's being a little barney

26.   [biheɪvjɚ]

for their behavior

27.   [boʊʔtloʊd]

this boatload of people come over from england

28.   [bɑtn̩i]

um i could even so go so far as to saying chemistry or botany or psychology

29.   [bijɑn]

maybe we're beyond that

30.   [beɪsɪkli]

and basically eighteen hundred of them live on campus

31.   [bɹeɪns]

there's some brains down there

32.   [bikəz]

people feel that too many kids are on this stuff because

33.   [beɪsɪk]

oh it has yknow your basic uh

34.   [bɪheɪvjɚ]

approve of his immoral behavior but

Word Medial

35.   [pɹɑbləmz]

and domestic problems

36.   [dɪsɛmbɚ]

took me finally like december something

37.   [moʊbl̩aɪzt]

with the expectation of their being mobilized

38.   [əbaʊʔt]

i'm not sure about the new

39.   [ʧɛbʊ]

my business for me like like could i do their checkbook course i'm not gonna do their checkbook

40.   [həzbɛn]

woman's husband

41.   [ppɹɑbli]

i probably could pass the citizenship and the

42.   [n̩kɹɛɾəboʊ]

it's the restaurants i know it they're incredible

43.   [meɪbi]

he could've been there maybe but

44.   [ɛnɪbəɾi]

anybody can connect to the web

45.   [meɪbi]

maybe

46.   [ɛvɹibədi]

kind of a gossip she went around talking to everybody trying to get them all support her and nobody would support her

47.   [ʧɛɹəɾəbl̩]

the type of work that i do but i think she's very charitable

48.   [juzəbl̩]

is it useable

49.   [səbs]

able to get subs fifty

50.   [tɹəbl̩]

we had trouble with the demand it was

51.   [əbaʊʔt]

so that's a little bit about me uh lets see

52.   [dɪsəbələɾi]

i mean realize they didn't ask to have a learning disability

53.   [ɛvɹibəɾi]

a lot of support from everybody get

54.   [neɪbɚ]

uh no we kind of help my neighbor out he's got a big garden next

55.   [əbzəɹv]

i would like they say like now like people that observe him he's like sings to himself and he

56.   [pɑsəbl̩]

little as possible

57.   [ʤɹɔbæk]

that's no that's no drawback we're not isolated

58.   [əbaʊ]

that's about right that's about right

59.   [laɪbɹɛæn]

she's a librarian at

60.   [æbsəns]

its the absence

61.   [maɪndbɑɡlɪŋ]

it's just mindboggling all these people you know you graduate with

62.   [ɪmbɹeɪs]

while they totally embrace the culture and all the stores and everything like that

Word Final

63.   [ʤɑbæ]

i went that's when i got the job at channel four

64.   [ʤɑb]

jobs like that i mean you i had a different job

65.   [wɛb]

well the web again has changed that there's

66.   [ʤɑb]

it's not a full time job to take care of a home

67.   [wɛb]

anybody can connect to the web

68.   [ɹihæb]

in rehab yknow keep them there

69.   [ɹɑb]

now he's eighteen he's rob

70.   [kəb]

piper cub observation plane i don't know whether he saw him

71.   [ɹəb]

she takes that cake of soap she doesn't rub my tongue she

72.   [ɡɹæb]

and i'm just i hear people say stuff like that in the grocery store and i just want to walk up to the guy and grab him around the neck and say


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