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This is the (partly artificial) pronunciation standard I aspire to; it can be described as "slightly poshed-up Philadelphian".

TODO: still editing.

TODO: vowels before L (appall = a pole, full = fool)

Consonants
IPA	examples
b	buy, cab, abbot
ç~ɦ	hue, human, huge
d	dye, cad, do, due, added, drink
ð	thy, breathe, father
d͡ʒ	giant, badge, jam
f	fan, café, physics, laugh
ɡ	guy, bag, yoghurt
h	high, hot, who
ɦ~h	ahead, behind
j	yes, yacht
k; kʰ	sky, crack, charisma; can, quite
ɫ	lamp, sly, gal, alligator, feel, call
m	my, smile, cam, slammed
ɱ	symphony, circumvent
n	nigh, snide, can, banned
ŋ	sang, thank, sinking, running
ŋɡ	finger, anger, singer
θ	thigh, maths, atheist
p; pʰ	spy, cap, tapping; pin, pony, rapport
ɹ	rye, try, very
s	sigh, mass
ʃ	shy, cash, emotion
t; tʰ	sty, cat, time, ton, tune
ɾ	patty, mighty
t͡ʃ; t͡ʃʰ	catch, Portugal; China
v	vie, have
w	why, wine, question
x	loch, jalapeño
z	zoo, has, realise
ʒ	equation, pleasure, vision, beige
ʔ	uh-oh, kitten

Vowels
IPA	lax	IPA	tense
æ	trap, pad, laugh, marry	eə̯	ham, man, (most BATH words in RP)
ɛ	dress, bed, fell, error, merry, again
ɪ	kill, lid, bin, system, happY after /l/ or /r/	i	flea, seed, receive, achieve, encyclopedia, fetus, Jesus, other happY words
ɑ	palm, father, dot, origin, can't (emphatic)	o~oə	thought, dawn, fall, pole, off, loss, cost, cloth, dog, long
ʊ	good, woman, fool	ʉ; jʉ	food, chew, do, through; cute, queue, you, neutral
ə	comma, assume, mud, young
IPA	Diphthongs and rhotic vowels
ɑɪ	ride, pile, I, dye, buy	ʌɪ	spider, tight, type
ɑɚ~ʌɚ	car, yard
æʊ̯	cow, loud, bough
ɪi	name, pain, weight, raise	ɛɪ̯	betray, rays
eɚ	care, fairy
iɚ	beer, fear, serious, fierce, beard, here
oɪ~ʊɪ	choice, toy, coin
əʊ	bone, go, goat, blow
oɚ~ʊɚ	north, core, poor
joɚ~jɚ	cure, pure
ɚ	fur, hurry, letter
Syllabic consonants
ɫ̩~əɫ	awful, waffle, offal, squabble
m̩~əm	rhythm, atom
n̩~ən	button, even, Britain, often

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 This is the (partly artificial) pronunciation standard I aspire to; it can be described as "slightly poshed-up Philadelphian".
-TODO: still editing. e.g. I'm rhotic like most Philly speakers
+TODO: still editing.
 TODO: vowels before L (appall = a pole, full = fool)