American English Pronunciation Workbook

Examples of the Consonant [d]


Word Initial

1.   [du]

to get them to do what they do to even to help like blind people

2.   [du]

that's what i'm looking for to do

3.   [dɪd]

that they did um for breast fed babies to bottle fed babies

4.   [dɛd]

should be dead

5.   [doʊnt]

and buy them so i don't think it's like

6.   [dɔɾɚ]

the one daughter on the bus to go to school and then

7.   [dɛkɚeɪʃn̩z]

there's a little bit of that and there are decorations and stuff at christmas but it isn't so much

8.   [dɹɑpən]

it was tough dropping them off when they were six weeks old and you're going oh geezy are we doing the right thing yknow

9.   [dɪfəkəlt]

yknow but it's very difficult today

10.   [dɪsaɪdɪd]

how many years ago seven or eight years ago decided to build

11.   [dɛvl̩]

not the devil

12.   [dɪʔtn̩]

he didn't

13.   [dɪdn̩]

uh we didn't even know what a nickel or a dime was uh those

14.   [dɪfɚn]

filter it through something it looks different

15.   [dɪfɚnʔt]

a totally different way than the norm

16.   [dɪfɚʔt]

different swim centers hunter

17.   [dɪfɹən]

different it's always but like yknow

18.   [dɪfɹənt]

different cities and suburbs of

19.   [dɪfɹɛn]

that's different

20.   [dɪfɚn]

i mean you're you're never going to get rid of all of that because there are always different groups and different cliques but

21.   [dɪfɚnt]

different perspective it's

22.   [dɪfɹəʔt]

too different

23.   [dɪfɹɛn]

it would be different but since women are the only ones that can

24.   [dɪfɹənts]

yknow the different students with each other and

25.   [dɪfɚɛnʔt]

amazing how much the growth in delaware and different areas when

26.   [dɪfɹɛnt]

i see a a whole different

27.   [dɪfɹɛnʔt]

different

Word Medial

28.   [tədeɪ]

today if you were born in a third world country

29.   [tɪdeɪ]

students in high school today

30.   [spɛndɪŋ]

reputation which is totally true for like spending spending spending

31.   [stændɚd]

pretty much coming close to your standard and

32.   [mɪdl̩]

well no they have two elementaries one middle school and one high school and a superintendent which they don't need yknow

33.   [ɛvɹideɪ]

i think the real problem comes when you start drinking alone and everyday

34.   [koʊldnɛs]

when you see it you'll know what i'm talking about like coldness

35.   [kn̩dɪʃɪn]

and uh specifically i'm looking at how they perceived their condition

36.   [kskludɪŋ]

excluding times when i was away at school

37.   [mɛdəlz]

i had a girl once that won all kind of medals in gymnastics at the state level

38.   [ɪndəvɪʤul]

when i made mention that three doors down you don't even know who that individual is and i want to stick with that

39.   [ʧɪldɹən]

never decided i never wanted children and i knew

40.   [ʧɪldɹən]

is our children and our offspring

41.   [səndeɪ]

sunday night

42.   [həndɪɹd]

and i don't need a hundred percent

Word Final

43.   [dɪleɪd]

why we're delayed and it's really them themselves

44.   [stændɚd]

pretty much coming close to your standard and

45.   [ɡʊd]

so you don't have to say anything as long as you live a good clean honest life

46.   [səlɛktəd]

selected

47.   [wɚld]

guns in the world that

48.   [spɛnd]

yknow and i think that unfortunately spend a lot of your time trying to get out of

49.   [hæd]

he had um

50.   [wiɹd]

and what's weird is you almost go right back in

51.   [nid]

need to distinguish between the personal inner personal

52.   [sɛd]

because the police said that this

53.   [dɪd]

i did vote for

54.   [sɛd]

paper to work on and he said i showed you i

55.   [dɪd]

that they did um for breast fed babies to bottle fed babies

56.   [θɚd]

over here that's jane doe that lives in that third house

57.   [mɛɹid]

eleven or twelve shortly after they were married

58.   [n̩saɪd]

all your goodies inside


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