American English Pronunciation Workbook

Examples of the Consonant [k]


Word Initial

1.   [kɔnflɪkt]

conflict and

2.   [kɹeɪzi]

easton is crazy

3.   [kænɑt]

that you cannot possibly learn in a book in school they help

4.   [kɪd]

i think the right candidate could and i think mike coleman this year

5.   [kʊd]

children then tv ever could

6.   [kəd]

for a while as long as i could

7.   [kwaɪʔt]

it was quite

8.   [kænt]

i can't see it being any

9.   [kn̩teɪnɚ]

with a container at the bar

10.   [kɑʔt]

caught chewing gum

11.   [kɹæp]

in traffic everybody gets all upset that this big road rage crap

12.   [kɪd]

have this crap with the kid going

13.   [kɑst]

and is it the cost or is it the wants

14.   [kəmɪmə]

the lack of commitment

15.   [kɑnduɪt]

occupational data and we were kind of a conduit for the state for that

16.   [kɹɪstl̩z]

entrance and there are these trees on the inside of the house they're just growing down into everything and there are like crystals and they have this one room that looks like a sphinx and then they have

Word Medial

17.   [tɛksɪs]

it's in texas

18.   [ɪkwɛpmɛnt]

a little bit better equipment because the equipment is really ancient i mean there's stuff there that's older than i am

19.   [pɑɹkiŋ]

if i could jump on this rail system and it would take me fifteen minutes and i wouldn't have to pay fifty dollars a month for parking

20.   [ɪdɪktɪd]

of being like an addicted

21.   [tɑki]

they're talking about putting

22.   [ɹɪkwaɪɹt]

anyway they really aren't required to be

23.   [oʊkeɪ]

and then they end up okay anyway

24.   [fɪzɪks]

biology chemistry physics

25.   [bikəz]

is because everyone always thinks you're mad at them

26.   [bikɔz]

because i grew up in the depression and didn't have these things

27.   [pikəz]

just because uh

After /s/

28.   [skɪl]

um but like a trade or a skill or something

29.   [skɔɹz]

and if they don't pull their scores up

30.   [skɛɹd]

too scared to tell you

31.   [skɹæʧ]

everyone don't you think like everyone with the littlest scratch would go in

32.   [əkskjus]

there's no excuse

33.   [skul]

i like yknow four cartoons back to back or so everyday after school or i

34.   [tskɛʧ]

hours worth of research into and then sketch and

35.   [ski]

we like going to see the ski resorts everything i don't really ski

36.   [skɛɹi]

you're got people you don't know watching your kid and that's kinda scary but

37.   [skwɚt]

yknow don't let him play with a yknow even a squirt gun yknow and so

38.   [skulz]

the schools are always so grateful to

39.   [skulz]

i did some home instruction with the columbus public schools last year

40.   [skulɪŋ]

the schooling

41.   [skaɪ]

yknow driving in the middle of the sky

42.   [skaɪwɔkɚ]

the innocence of luke skywalker

43.   [skjis]

jogged excuse me i don't

Word Final

44.   [laɪk]

but i like the hours more than anything because it's two to ten

45.   [θɪŋk]

like a think tank of

46.   [θɪŋk]

i think

47.   [bæk]

yeah you gotta remember it was all swamps back when i was a kid

48.   [slɪk]

average in that i don't go for the the the slick image

49.   [laɪk]

get a job like

50.   [laɪk]

but uh yknow it's like if

51.   [laɪk]

yknow like

52.   [θɪŋk]

it is the stance but i think

53.   [əlɚʤɪk]

because a lot of times it is allergic reactions to things they've eaten

54.   [tʊk]

took a trip i went skydiving white water rafting and skydiving again right before we moved in

55.   [θɪk]

stick with one woman i don't think

56.   [laɪk]

higher approval rating than reagan had in his last eighteen months so yknow people still like what he what he's done

57.   [laɪk]

or places like that more east coast it's like

58.   [laɪk]

i i like to watch football i like o s u i've never really gotten into anything else but now

59.   [æsk]

i've never had a doc well now with the forms you fill out with your physicians and they ask you

60.   [fæk]

no in fact the

61.   [fæk]

like the fact that he didn't know

62.   [fækt]

i got really tired of the fact that within two weeks of knowing me and dating me she said


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