American English Pronunciation Workbook

Examples of the Vowel [ɛ]


Primary Stress

1.   [ɛls]

everybody else that's normally flying like all the airliners and stuff so and they want to get there a s a p so

2.   [ɛls]

whatever else kind of record finding they need

3.   [ɛls]

but everybody else is within ten minutes of each other

4.   [ɛls]

i don't know what it's like to grow up uh anywhere else

5.   [ɛni]

uh any one of those

6.   [ɛni]

but i don't have any

7.   [ɛvəɹ]

well just like premarital sex i mean there was no way i would ever discuss anything like that ever with her i mean that was just something that you didn't

8.   [ɛvɚ]

uh i don't ever

9.   [ɛvɹi]

every man like every woman he sees is he attracted to every woman and yknow want to go to bed with every woman

10.   [ɛvɹɪ]

every single week

11.   [ɛvɹɪ]

every time i would have done them i would have known they were wrong

12.   [ɛvɹi]

coffee is hotter than every other

13.   [əvɹi]

playing with his shoes and stuff like that she said but if came time to answer the questions he knew every answer

14.   [nɛvɚ]

i never found it never saw it never it it's

15.   [nɛvɚ]

he's so funny because my parents are so you would never put them together now yknow

Secondary Stress

16.   [ɛʤikeɪʃn̩]

feel like i've gotten good education and work skills from working here for this long and

17.   [ɛʤɪkeɪʃɪn]

i'd say incorporate that with some education

18.   [ɪʤɪkeɪʃɪm]

it doesn't have to be a college education because

19.   [nɛsɪsɛɹi]

if it's not necessary

Unstressed

20.   [ɪksʧɪmli]

yknow raised in this really really really conservative extremely christian religious community of ashland

21.   [ɪkstɹimli]

i have extremely expensive tastes


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