Keywords in MAE and British English

Here is our keyword handout with links to some of the vowels as pronounced by Peter Ladefoged (the full IPA chart)

MAE RP[1]
FLEECE [i] [i]
KIT [?] [?]
DRESS [?] [e]
FACE [e?] [e?]
TRAP [æ] [æ]
BATH [æ] [?]
PALM [a] ([?]) [?]
LOT [?] [?]
CLOTH [?] ([?]) [?]
THOUGHT [?] ([?]) [?]
STRUT [?] [?]
FOOT [?] [?]
GOOSE [u] [u]
NURSE [?r] [?]
GOAT [o?] [??]
PRICE [a?] [a?]
CHOICE [??] [??]
MOUTH [a?] [a?]
NEAR [?r] [??]
SQUARE [?r] [??]
START [ar] [?]
NORTH [?r] ([or]) [?]
FORCE [or] ([?r]) [?]
CURE  [?r] ([?r]) [??]

[1] As in Melchers and Shaw’s World Englishes (we are reading ch. 4) based on J.C. Wells. 1982. Accents of English. Cambridge University Press (vowel length omitted).

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