American English Pronunciation Workbook

Examples of the Consonant [n]


Word Initial

1.   [nɛvɚ]

never alone

2.   [nɛvɚ]

uh walt disney was told by a manager at woolworth's that he would never have a creative idea in his life

3.   [nɛvɚ]

that they never

4.   [nəθɪŋ]

it's unfair yknow life is unfair nothing ever works and

5.   [nəðɪŋ]

so we put it on my computer and i've had nothing but problems since

6.   [nəθn̩]

nothing serious no

7.   [nəθɪn]

because there was nothing

8.   [nəθɪŋ]

yeah yeah yeah i was just there's nothing and i was we looked at some of those and my wife's like there's no way we're buying the yknow you feel like you're in florida or something

9.   [nəθɪŋ]

there's nothing

10.   [nɑʔt]

not not just on the uh national level

11.   [nidz]

yknow they needs

12.   [noʊ]

i would say yes and no i've uh i've uh i feel pretty accepted

13.   [noʊvəɾi]

nobody visits

14.   [nɚʧɚ]

and nurture and feed and yknow it

15.   [noʊ]

know anything i

16.   [noʊɪn]

knowing that

Word Internal

17.   [ɛni]

any

18.   [ɛni]

you know compared to any other cities course

19.   [ɡənz]

uh just make stiffer penalties to people that carry the guns or that are involved in shootings and things like that

20.   [paʊnz]

yeah i was cutting twenty pounds in three days

21.   [ænʔt]

and my aunt had to choose between

22.   [jɪnoʊ]

yknow my older sister was a different case she was a little badder but it it's yknow

23.   [ænsɚ]

even if your answer is

24.   [ɪndəvɪʤul̩s]

yknow people are individuals and you have to take that in to consideration i think so

25.   [ænd]

yeah the same thing you were talking about and uh we're only the third people to live in it

26.   [mɪdnaɪt]

um midnight

27.   [nəf]

bad enough everybody else talks about them but i don't need to

28.   [ævənu]

was raised on como avenue and i live two blocks away from there now

29.   [wəzənʔt]

if you used it to shoot someone who wasn't yknow i

30.   [hæpɛns]

he doesn't see fit to tell me why something happens

31.   [hændl̩]

pretty much know how to handle myself

32.   [wɛnt]

our daughter went there her from six weeks all the way up to when she went to first grade

Word Final

33.   [nɛn]

and then

34.   [daʊntaʊn]

down closer to downtown or


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