American English Pronunciation Workbook
Word Initial
1. [tu]
too
2. [tæksɪs]
every other day you start him on taxes and he'll just start fuming
3. [taɪm]
or you're just gonna go back because you don't know any other way at the time
4. [tu]
his family leaves he just has complete temper tantrums and he's tried that out a few times too
5. [tɚm]
term
6. [tənz]
i mean there's just tons and tons of
7. [taɪmz]
etc etc and they come here a couple times a year
8. [taɪpɪŋ]
she'd be down there typing
9. [taɪm]
she was married too for quite some time
10. [tɹævl̩]
me yknow the freeways we have here weren't built for the amount of people that travel on them now i remember when they built seventy one north
11. [tɛst]
essay for for a test
12. [taɪps]
i don't really keep up with statistics as far as the crime rate and those types of things i mean i don't know
13. [tɪkɪts]
so uh she gets a lot of tickets
14. [taɪm]
nothing else to do about it and continue on merrily and he's i he said eventually he said it was some time later when i actually found out
15. [taɪ]
my wife's been working part time
16. [tɛəbli]
u p n and fifty three doesn't come in terribly well so
17. [tu]
talk to them two times each
18. [tɔk]
no they should talk about i think they should talk about that too
19. [taɪps]
that our families are very similar i mean we have a lot of the same types of opinions about
20. [tiʧɚ]
yeah my roommate actually had that teacher and
21. [twaɪs]
think twice
22. [teɪp]
i go to the library on my day off and i get two or three books on tape
23. [tɪɹmənl̩əʤɪ]
get the track terminology there
24. [tɚmz]
not in the terms of a christian saving but
25. [teɪkɪn]
they shouldn't have taken it off of the
26. [teɪkɪm]
the sweats there's some people that have taken pictures of sweat lodges which you're not supposed to do
27. [teɪkn̩]
i haven't taken him there yet
28. [tɪɡɛðɚ]
and they live together and uh
29. [tɪɡɛðɚ]
and one kid he had while we was together
30. [tɡɛðɚ]
mom and dad aren't together and
Word Medial
31. [æftɚ]
after her the whole time the minute she walks in the door yknow
32. [naɪntin]
fall of nineteen forty two i believe
33. [fɪfti]
um we pay like forty fifty here
34. [kɑntɛks]
in the same context
35. [θɔts]
i mean yknow i have little thoughts of like i like
36. [lɑbstɚ]
until i tried some crab meat and lobster
37. [kæstɪŋ]
casting off authority and that kind of stuff it was about someone making a bad choice
38. [sɪstɚz]
my mother's two sisters married southern baptists ministers
39. [fɪftin]
fifteen thousand people there or something like that
40. [noʊts]
print promissory notes
41. [lɛts]
your son's gonna be gay he's two right now let's
42. [kɹɛɾɪts]
i mean i can practically graduate already i have all the credits
43. [dɑktɚɹ]
his doctor um
44. [ɹɪtaɪɚd]
retired is basically um
45. [eɪtin]
eighteen nineteen votes
46. [ɪtɹniʃ]
you get the attorneys trying to argue that well mcdonalds
47. [æftɚ]
after the
48. [kɛɹktɚ]
and she's an interesting character i guess i mean
49. [pɹɪtɛkʃɪn]
that protection like they said normally you use it against somebody you didn't mean to use it on
50. [hɛzɪteɪʔt]
we don't hesitate
51. [kɑntɪnuɪɾi]
a greater degree of continuity from episode to episode
52. [əsɪstɪŋ]
did some assistant coach
After /s/
53. [stəl]
and you kinda knew everybody around the neighborhood but i think that that's still
54. [stɹiʔt]
worked on front street
55. [stoʊɹ]
there's a girl at the store i was talking to and uh
56. [stəf]
abuse stuff and i was like
57. [stɑɹɾɪɾ]
it's a cartoon i believe it started out
58. [stæmpʔt]
captain janeway being a female in the leadership standpoint but i
59. [stɹeɪɾ]
even though they got straight a's
60. [studn̩ʔt]
actually getting to know the student
61. [stəf]
when you go down there doesn't really help to see that stuff because it reminds you of
62. [stəf]
the regular rooms are still nice and they have showers and stuff
63. [steɪʔt]
plus its a nationally recognized school so a degree from ohio state
64. [stɑp]
course i'm gonna get stopped for suspicious person everywhere i go
65. [stɪl]
most people make fun of me for still wearing detroit hats and being a detroit fan because i've lived in ohio for so long
66. [stɹɔŋ]
yknow she's she's really strong about that though because
67. [ɪkstɹimz]
but then you go to a lot of other extremes yknow where you set there and these people wouldn't
68. [stɪtɪstɪk]
ninety nine times out of a hundred i don't know if that's a good statistic
Word Final
69. [æsɛt]
asset
70. [pɹist]
uh have been delegated outside of the duties of the priest
71. [list]
and they have no means to help themselves at least if you
72. [pət]
but uh
73. [bət]
but
74. [ɹeɪsɪst]
a little bit more racist
75. [pɔɪnt]
but i didn't know that until i was done with my freshman year with a one point seven g p a
76. [skɹɪpt]
yeah you have you follow the script it that that's real funny too
77. [ðæt]
that
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