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SYMBOL
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Usual Spelling
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EXAMPLES
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less common
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EXAMPLES
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ee / ea
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seat,
bean,
cheek,
sheep,
teen,
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e (stressed)
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be, these, complete
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|
i
|
sit,
bin,
chick,
lip,
tin,
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e (unstressed)
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English, pretty, before
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|
e
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set,
neck,
ten,
fell,
men,
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ea
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bread, health, ready
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|
a
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sat,
ban,
lack,
pan,
hat,
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-
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-
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|
u
|
cut,
bun,
luck,
much,
cup,
|
o
|
son, brother, love, month
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|
ar
|
cart,
barn,
cast,
march,
part,
|
a
|
father, dance, bath
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o
|
cot,
lock,
posh,
fox,
cod,
|
-
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-
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or / au / aw
|
caught,
port,
forks,
cord,
born,
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-
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-
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|
oo
|
book,
took,
good,
look,
foot,
|
u
|
pull, put, butcher
|
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oo
|
fool,
shook,
soon,
boom,
mood,
|
u
|
Luke, brute, flute
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stressed:
er / ir / ur
|
bird,
turn,
perch,
shirt,
learn,
|
wor
|
work, word, worse
|
|
any vowel or vowel combination
|
Barbara,
Photograph,
a house,
the sun,
station,
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-
|
-
|
|
a, ai/ay
|
station,
face,
Katy,
day,
May,
stay,
rain,
paid
|
-
|
-
|
|
i/y
|
fine,
my,
mine,
pile,
shine,
pilot,
five,
|
-
|
-
|
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oi/oy
|
boy,
boil,
joy,
toy,
voice
|
-
|
-
|
|
ou/ow
|
house,
out,
ground,
how,
town,
allow
|
-
|
-
|
|
o
|
phone,
so,
ago,
home,
alone,
cold,
both,
post
|
ou/ow
|
soul, though, low, snow
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|
eer, ear
|
beer,
cheer,
steer,
near,
ear,
dear,
fear
|
-
|
-
|
|
ear
|
chair,
stair,
fair,
hair,
fairy
|
-
|
-
|
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our/owr
|
hour,
our,
sour,
flower,
power
|
-
|
-
|
|
ire
|
fire,
admire,
hire,
tired
|
i+vowel
|
liar, science, giant
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