American English Pronunciation Workbook

Examples of the Consonant [s]


Word Initial

1.   [soʊ]

so

2.   [soʊ]

and so

3.   [soʊ]

so

4.   [sɛd]

his teachers said

5.   [spikŋ]

he still doesn't know it was me but he and i are still on speaking terms which is

6.   [sɛnɚ]

that's really all that i know so it's obviously a lot more build up it's gotten a lot more commercial things like city center and

7.   [seɪlz]

because when you go to estate sales

8.   [sinjɚ]

she's a senior here at um

9.   [stəf]

and they were nudists and taking him to nudist camps and stuff like this

10.   [stɑp]

to stop him

11.   [spəsɪfɪk]

because the people of this land were given specific instructions

12.   [spɛl]

yeah and he can sound out things and he can even spell things just from his own understanding of phonics and

Word Medial

13.   [ɹɛsliŋ]

after that i quit wrestling and

14.   [ɹisɚʧɚ]

and the researcher

15.   [pleɪsɪz]

during high school how easy it was for me to get in to places i mean the citadel was begging me to come

16.   [ɪkspoʊz]

exposed to a lot of

17.   [ɔlsə]

also

18.   [pɚsən]

is a person who has an m d

19.   [beɪsmɪʔt]

was making bombs and stuff like that in the basement and the parents

20.   [fɚs]

i was in columbus for the first like six years i taught

21.   [dɪsaɪɾɪd]

doesn't wanna know either and so sara decided that she could not go

Word Final

22.   [məʃɹums]

mushrooms

23.   [pis]

the piece

24.   [mæs]

in terms of global mass communication to everybody

25.   [spɪɹɪts]

spirits

26.   [wɚs]

then it's just even worse

27.   [ʤoʊks]

lot of jokes that are

28.   [ʧɔɪs]

some of them do make a choice

29.   [ɪɡmɪts]

uh nobody really admits it but

30.   [ɹɑks]

the the laws of thermodynamics say that it's impossible for rocks to retain heat that way and that they can't be heated to an adequate point of

31.   [ɹoʊbɑts]

killer robots or something like transformers that kind of thing

32.   [ðɪs]

people back to this

33.   [ðɪs]

that's how i did this


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