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Since there are many accents in English, this list does not list all the sounds of

English, mostly just those of American English. Some of the sounds listed above are
a little different in different accents. For example, while most British accents can say

and understand the difference between /ɑ/ and /ɔ/, many American accents cannot

tell difference between the two sounds and usually pronounce them the same way.

This is called the Cot-Caught Merger.
Since there is such a difference between vowel sounds even among accents and

dialects of English, alongside such a small number of letters to represent a large

number of sounds, the difference between the dialects and accents of English would

also make spelling reform very difficult, since there is no one central authority that
decides how English should be written (since both Britain and America have a major

influence on how English is written) and since people would have their own ideas on

how to spell words.

Activity 3: Practice saying Monophthongs vs. diphthongs

Activity 4: Summarize Unit (Monopthongs and Diphtongs)

1. Summarize unit 5 (from studying the IPA chart,, Monophthongs vs.
diphthongs)

2. Tasks and Project:

a. Do tasks 1 and 2
b. Project: Identify 2 words each that have 2,3,4,5,6 sounds (the words

should be different from what you have got in the previous tasks)

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