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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, marry, linearity	eə̯	ham, man, manner, some BATH words
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, pasta, dot, orange, 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
ɤ~ʌ	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
ɛj	say, rays	ɪj	name, pain, weight, raise
eɚ	care, fairy, authoritarian
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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 |<big>eə̯</big>
-| align=left|h'''a'''m, m'''a'''n, m'''a'''nner
+| align=left|h'''a'''m, m'''a'''n, m'''a'''nner, some BATH words
 |-
 | <big>ɛ</big>
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+==Additional tense-A words==