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The following is the pronunciation standard I aspire to; it can be described as "standardized modern Philadelphian", or "slightly General American-ized Philly".

IPA Keys
Aelatha
Attian
Avendonian
Ayeri
Biscayan
Brittainese
Cet
Cha
Cruckeny
Etlish
Evonish
Favlona
Guimin
Gwaxol
Hantza
Hemaluan
High Valyrian
Iaskyon
Jukpë
Kaikiwan
Keeltyewarem
Kihā́mmic
Knrawi
Kunarek
Luthic
Lôppic
Maryan Coptic
Messinese
Mihousapeja
Millennish
Moshurian
Oltic
Owaex
Pomorian
Qafesona
Rangyayo
Rulhilli
Soc'ul'
Sudyrnish
Umbrean

Consonants IPA examples b buy, cab, abbot ç~ɦ hue, human, huge d dye, cad, do, due, added, drink ð thy, breathe, father d͡ʒ giant, badge, jam f fan, café, physics, laugh ɡ guy, bag, yoghurt h high, hot, who ɦ~h ahead, behind j yes, yacht k; kʰ sky, crack, charisma; can, quite ɫ lamp, sly, gal, alligator, feel, call m my, smile, cam, slammed ɱ symphony, circumvent n nigh, snide, can, banned ŋ sang, thank, sinking, running θ thigh, maths, atheist p; pʰ spy, cap, tapping; pin, pony, rapport ɹ rye, try, very s sigh, mass ʃ shy, cash, emotion t; tʰ sty, cat, time, ton, tune ɾ patty, mighty t͡ʃ; t͡ʃʰ catch, Portugal; China v vie, have w why, wine, question x loch, jalapeño z zoo, has, realise ʒ equation, pleasure, vision, beige ʔ uh-oh, kitten

Vowels IPA lax IPA tense æ trap, pad, marry, linearity eə̯ /æ/ before /m, n/, some BATH words in RP (see below) ɛ dress, bed, fell, error, merry, again ɪ kill, lid, bin, system, happY after /l/ or /r/ i seed, receive, achieve, encyclopedia, fetus, Jesus, other happY words ɑ palm, father, pasta, dot, orange, can't (emphatic) o~oə~ʊə thought, dawn, fall, pole, off, loss, cost, cloth, dog, long, on (see CLOTH words below) ʊ good, woman, fool, pull ʉ; jʉ food, chew, do, through; cute, queue, you, neutral ɤ~ʌ mud, young, hurry, turret, current, cull, gullet ə comma, assume IPA Diphthongs and rhotic vowels ɑj ride, pile, I, dye, buy ʌj spider, tight, type ɑɚ car, yard æw cow, loud, bough ɛj say, rays ɪj name, pain, weight, raise, flea eɚ care, fairy, authoritarian iɚ beer, fear, serious, fierce, beard, here oj~ʊj choice, toy, coin əw bone, go, goat, blow oɚ~ʊɚ north, core, poor joɚ cure, pure ɚ fur, letter Syllabic consonants ɫ̩~əɫ awful, waffle, offal, squabble m̩~əm rhythm, atom n̩~ən button, even, Britain, often

Additional tense-A words

• calf, chaff, giraffe, graph, half, laugh, photograph, staff, telegraph
• calve, halve
• aft, after, craft, daft, draft, graft, haft, laughter, raft, rafter, shaft
• bath, lath, path
• ass, brass, class, glass, grass, pass
• all -ask- words: e.g. ask, bask, basket, cask, casket, flask, mask, rascal, task
• all -asp- words: e.g. clasp, gasp, grasp, hasp, rasp
• all -ast- words: e.g. aghast, avast, blast, cast, caste, contrast, fast, last, mast, past, pastime, vast
  • bastard, caster, castor, dastard(ly), disaster, ghastly, master, nasty, pasteurize, pastime, pastor, pastoral, pasture, plaster
• castle, fasten, raspberry
• bad, glad, mad

CLOTH words

• cough, doff, off, quaff, scoff, toff, trough, often
• croft, loft, oft, soft, toft
• coffer, offer, proffer
• office, coffee, toffee
• across, boss, cross, doss, dross, emboss, floss, fosse, gloss, hoss, lacrosse, loss, moss, Ross, toss
• Boston, foster, cost, frost, lost
• broth, cloth, froth, moth, sloth, wroth
• along, belong, long, oblong, song, strong, thong, throng, tong, wrong
• dog
• on, onward(s), onto, upon, thereon, whereon, hereon

Miscellaneous

can't is sometimes pronounced /kɑnt/ (to help distinguish it from can).