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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