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The following is the pronunciation standard I aspire to; it can be described as "slightly poshed-up Philadelphian".

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
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
a~ɑ	palm, father, pasta, dot, sorry, can't (emphatic)	o~oə	thought, dawn, fall, pole, off, loss, cost, cloth, dog, long, on
ʊ	good, woman, fool, pull	ʉ; jʉ	food, chew, do, through; cute, queue, you, neutral
ʌ~ɤ~ʊ	mud, young, hurry, turret, current, cull, gullet
ə	comma, assume
IPA	Diphthongs and rhotic vowels
ɑj	ride, pile, I, dye, buy	ʌj	spider, tight, type
ɑɚ	car, yard
æw	cow, loud, bough
ɪj	name, pain, weight, raise	ɛj	betray, rays
eɚ	care, fairy
iɚ	beer, fear, serious, fierce, beard, here
oj	choice, toy, coin
əw	bone, go, goat, blow
oɚ	north, core, poor
joɚ~jɚ	cure, pure
ɚ	fur, 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".
+The following is the pronunciation standard I aspire to; it can be described as "slightly poshed-up Philadelphian".
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