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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