American English Pronunciation Workbook
Examples of the Consonant [f]
Word Initial
1.
[fɪlɑsəfi]
i'd be a good philosophy to live by
2.
[fɛloʊ]
fellow history major too and a friend of mine i don't know him all that well which
3.
[fiʧɚz]
talking about just the physical features
4.
[fimɛls]
navy seals then females from a biological stand point
5.
[filiŋ]
urge this feeling to just share my faith with certain people on the
6.
[foʊkʊs]
through the children so the focus and the emphasis was really on the children
7.
[fɪftin]
that syndrome yknow well at least i can be popular for fifteen minutes or whatever
8.
[faɪnd]
pretty much anywhere in delaware that i can find
9.
[faɪnəl]
or one final
10.
[fækt]
i think the fact that things like
11.
[fæmli]
that are happy than one family that's miserable and they fight and then you feel like it's your yknow people say it's a my fault because this happened
12.
[fæmmi]
bring that family back together
13.
[faɪv]
graduated high school with three five it was all college prep classes a p courses
14.
[faɪv]
downstairs there's five different sectors so they split the uh
15.
[faɪv]
driving a eighty five truck
16.
[faɪv]
they charge seventy five to do that
Word Medial
17.
[bəfoʊɹ]
yknow before then i think by the time that you are past adolescence
18.
[bɪfɔɹ]
i mean i don't think they should make people pray if they don't want to before class or anything
19.
[bəfɔɹ]
everybody else in government before you can pass anything or or why
20.
[bifɔɹ]
i was a sophomore in high school before it dawned on me that tab a and slot b
21.
[bifɔɹ]
more money than they were gonna give us before that
22.
[bifoʊɹ]
seventy mile an hour before and now it's gonna be
23.
[bəfɔɹ]
that they get into some programs that they need and they're some things now i think that they're developing that they didn't have before
24.
[bəfɔɹ]
i went to work before that
25.
[pɚfɪkli]
all understand this and it's perfectly fine
26.
[wl̩feɪɚ]
sit there and they'll pay the welfare
27.
[sækɚfaɪs]
like one of the things i sacrificed was looking into grad schools and applying to grad school this past
28.
[dɪfɹəns]
yeah really those five miles make such a difference though
29.
[sɚtɪfəkɪʔt]
teaching certificate in
30.
[sɪɡnɪfɪɡɛnt]
is a very significant thing i think in terms of getting back to the basic family
31.
[wəndɚfəl]
wonderful and i just think it's just such an opportunity i'm so lucky to be able to do that
Word Final
32.
[stəf]
a lot of the stuff they put out is pretty hardcore for a five year old or so i mean yknow a lot of the
33.
[stəf]
billing and stuff
34.
[ɪnəf]
we had enough area to
35.
[ɪnəf]
he's smart enough
36.
[ɪf]
if
37.
[maɪsɛlf]
i like myself
38.
[hæf]
year and a half
39.
[laɪf]
uh uh early life
40.
[laɪf]
the their attitude about life was so
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