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In the vowels chart, a separate phonetic value is given for each major dialect, alongside the words used to name their corresponding lexical sets. The diaphonemes for the lexical sets given here are based on RP and General American; they are not sufficient to express all of the distinctions found in other dialects, such as Australian English.
This chart provides audio examples for phonetic vowel symbols. The symbols shown include those in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and added material. The chart is based on the official IPA vowel chart.
Note that place names are not generally exempted from being transcribed in this abstracted system, so rules such as the above must be applied in order to recover the local pronunciation. Examples include place names in much of England ending -ford , which although locally pronounced [-fəd] are transcribed /-fərd/ .
Square brackets are used with phonetic notation, whether broad or narrow [17] – that is, for actual pronunciation, possibly including details of the pronunciation that may not be used for distinguishing words in the language being transcribed, but which the author nonetheless wishes to document. Such phonetic notation is the primary function ...
For example, in the name Zack de la Rocha, Zack and Rocha have stress, but de la does not: / ˈ z æ k d ɛ l ə ˈ r oʊ tʃ ə /. It would therefore convey an incorrect pronunciation to leave the stress mark off Zack. OED2 does not indicate stress on monosyllables, but uses the stress mark to disambiguate disyllables: higher (ˈhaɪə(r)) vs ...
But if it goes well tonight, my name is pronounced ‘leh-vee,’ not ‘lee-vee,’” Dan Levy joked. “And if things go south, my name is pronounced ‘Martin Short,’” his father added ...
When a non-English name has a set English pronunciation (or pronunciations), include both the English and non-English pronunciations; the English transcription must always be first. If the native name is different from the English name, the native transcription must appear after the native name. For example: