From IPA chart for English dialects :
| IPA | Examples | |
|---|---|---|
 GA |
 RP | |
| IPA: English Vowels | ||
| æ | æ | lad, bad, cat[1] |
| ɑ | ɑː | father |
| ɒ | not, wasp | |
| ɔ | ɔː | law, caught[2], all, halt, talk |
| ə | ə | about |
| ɨ | ɪ | English |
| ɪ | ɪ | sit |
| i | i | city |
| iː | see | |
| meat | ||
| eɪ | eɪ | date |
| day, pain, whey, rein | ||
| ɛ | ɛ | bed[3] |
| ɝ/ɹ̩ | ɜː(ɹ) | burn |
| herd, earth | ||
| bird | ||
| ɑɹ | ɑː(ɹ) | arm, car |
| ʌ | ʌ | run, won, flood |
| ʊ | ʊ | put |
| hood | ||
| u | uː | soon, through |
| ɚ/ɹ̩ | ə(ɹ) | winner[4] |
| aɪ, ʌɪ |
aɪ | my, wise, high |
| ɔɪ | ɔɪ | boy, hoist |
| oʊ | əʊ | no, toe, soap |
| tow, soul, roll, cold, folk | ||
| aʊ | aʊ | now, trout |
| (j)u | juː | cute, few, dew |
| ɪɹ | ɪə(ɹ) | deer, here |
| ɛɹ | eə(ɹ)[5] | mare, there, bear |
| ɔɹ | ɔː(ɹ) | sort, warm |
| oɹ, ɔɹ | tore, boar, port | |
| ʊɹ | ʊə(ɹ)[6] | tour |
| jʊɹ, jɝ | jʊə(ɹ), jɔ:(ɹ) |
pure, Europe |
GA |
RP |
Examples |
- ^ Often transcribed /a/ for RP, for example in dictionaries of the Oxford University Press.
- ^ See low back merger for more discussion of this vowel in American English.
- ^ Often transcribed /e/ for RP, for example in Collins English Dictionary.
- ^ Sometimes transcribed for GA as [əɹ], especially in transcriptions that represent both rhotic and non-rhotic pronunciations, as [ə(ɹ)].
- ^ Alternative symbols used in British dictionaries are /ɛː/ (Oxford University Press) and /ɛə/.
- ^ >Roach, 2004 & 241-243, pp. 21-22, 25-26. Roach notes that many people in England use /ɔːɹ/ for this vowel, but the RP is to distinguish between more /mɔːɹ/ and moor /mʊəɹ/, tore /tɔːɹ/ and tour /tʊəɹ/, pour /pɔːɹ/ and poor /pʊəɹ/.