Vowels

IPA= International Phonetic Alphabet
Am= Cambridge Dictionary of American English
W= Webster's Dictionary of American English

IPA Am W  
ɑ ɑ ä       father, atomic, dot
æ æ ă       apple, cat, answer
eɪ ey ā       cake, paper, late
i: iy e       cheese, sea, people
ɪ ɪ ĭ       grin, hit, whisper
aɪ ay ī       kite, fine, time
e ɛ ĕ       head, rent, left
u: uw ū       blue, shoe, food
ʊ ʊ ü       put, book, foot
əʊ ow o       coat, broke, hope
Oɪ Oy oi       boy, noise, destroy
ʌ ʌ ŭ       cup, fun, bus (note: longer and used in stressed syllables)
ə ə ǔ       apply, recent, lemon (note: shorter and used in unstressed syllables)
aʊ aw ow       cow, brown, south
O: O ŏ       law, bought, awful (note: some regions use ɑ instead.)

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