The followings are notes from BBC - The sounds of British English. I listed all the example words so that we can reference it quickly if we have a doubt about the pronouciation.
Short Vowel
ɒ
lot, odd, wash
ɪ
kit, bid, hymn, minute.
ʊ
foot, put, good.
ʌ
strut, mud, love, blood
ʌ, æ: undle, ankle; bunk, bank; but, bat; cup, cap; swum, swam
ɛ or e
dress, head, bed, many ɛ, ɪ: bed, bid; medal, middle, dead, did, fell, fill, pen, pin ɛ, eɪ: bed, bay
æ or a
trap, stamp, back, lap, dad
ə - schwa
a, the, of, that
Long Vowel
iː
fleece, sea, machine i, ɪ: litre, litter; cheap, chip, feet, fit; he's, his; peach, pitch; sheep, ship
uː
goose, two, blue, group
ɑː
father, start, hard
ɔː
thought, law, north, war
ʊː
ɛ
əː or ɜː
nurse, stir, learn, refer
Diphthongs, Doubled Vowel
ɪə
ear, hear, near: uk:nɪər, us:nɪr, weary.
ʊə
tour, pure, cure
aɪ, æɪ
eye, price, high, try
ɔɪ
boy, choice, noise
əʊ
boat, show, know əʊ, ɔː coat, caught; dough, door; sew, saw; flow, floor
aʊ
mouth, now, fowl aʊ, əʊ: couch, coach; clown, clone; loud, load; found, phoned
ɛː or eə
square, fair, pair, air ɛː, æ: dared, dad; glared, glad; Mary, marry
eɪ
face, day, break. eɪ, iː: ate, eat; faced, feast; great greet; mate, meet
Voiceless Consonants
ŋ
rung, anger, thanks ŋ, n: rung, run; tongue, ton; wing, win; robbing, robin; singer, sinner
n
nice, funny, son, none n, ŋ(much further back in the mounth): son, sung; pin, ping; ran, rang; thin, thing; wind, winged
m
more, hammer, sum, mine m, n, ŋ: sum, son, sung; rum, run, rung
j
yet, use, yellow, useful ju: bueaty, few, cute, accuse
p
pack, pan, copy, happen, hop, pop p, b: pack, back, punch, bunch
t
tin, button, get, tight t, d: tin, din; to, do; town, down; eight, aid; bet, bed
ʃ
ship, sure, nation, fish, shush,
tʃ
choke, teacher, match, church tʃ, dʒ: choke, joke; chunk, junk; rich, ridge; lunch, lunge;
k
came, lucky, sick, clock k, g: came, game; back, bag; cage, gauge; calories, galleries.
f
fat, coffee, rough, fluff f, v: fan, van; leaf, leave; off, of; rifle, rival;
s
soon, mister, hiss, cease s, z: hiss, his; course, cause; place, plays; gross, grows
θ
thin, throw, thumb, author, healthy, birth , path.
Voiced Consonants
b
back, bag, hobby, habit, job, bob b, p: back, pack; bare, pair; cab, cap; symbol, simple;
d
dame, ladder, odd, did d, t: dame, tame; doom, tomb, medal, metal; heard, hurt
ʒ
leisure, pleasure, vision, beige
dʒ
joke, lodger, bridge, judge dʒ, tʃ: joke, choke, junk, chunk, lunge, lunch; surge, search search
g
glue, struggle, bag, gig g, k: glue, clue; ghost, coast;log, lock; pig, pick;
v
very, heavy, move, verve v, f: vault, fault; believe, belief; live, life; v, b; very, berry; vet, bet; vote, boat; vowel, bowel;
ð
then, this, there, that, other, smooth,
z
zero, music, buzz, roses z, s: buzz, bus; rise, rice; zip, sip; lazy, lacy;
h
hear, hot, hello, ahead, height, hedge, how
l
light, valley, bell, level l, r: light, right; led, red; clash, crash; climb, crime; lice, rice; lock, rock;
r
right, wrong, sorry, arranges r, l: wrong, long; roayl, loyal; misread, misled; pirate; pilot; pray, play; r linking
w
wet, one, when, beware, quick, queen w, v: worse, verse; while, vile; west, vast; wary, vary;
Distinguish ʒ(yogh) from dʒ
- BBC - ʒ
- EnglishCentral - ʒ
- American English Daily - ʒ
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ʃ: ship, sure, nation, fish, shush; sciencing sound
- ʒ: leisure, pleasure, vision, beige
- tʃ: choke, teacher, match, church
- dʒ: joke, lodger, bridge, judge
- ʃ -> ʒ; tʃ -> dʒ
- dƷ can't extending; viƷƷƷƷƷən can extending.