id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-969 Help:IPA/English - Wikipedia .html text/html 6065 801 76 This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of English on Wikipedia.It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of English in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. The following tables list the IPA symbols used for English words and pronunciations. Some speakers from Northern England do not distinguish the vowel of square /ˈskwɛər/ and nurse /ˈnɜːrs/.[m] If you speak such a dialect, ignore the difference between the symbols /ɛər/ and /ɜːr/. In contemporary New Zealand English and some other dialects, the vowels of near /ˈnɪər/ and square /ˈskwɛər/ are not distinguished.[p] If you speak such a dialect, ignore the difference between the symbols /ɪər/ and /ɛər/. The vowels of pause and paws, distinguished in Cockney and by some Estuary English speakers.[u] Both of them are transcribed as /ɔː/ when the spelling does not contain ⟨r⟩ and /ɔːr/ or /ʊər/ (depending on the word) when it does. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-969.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-969.txt