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ꜱǫᴜᴀʀᴇ vowel phoneme /eə(r)/
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via: ꜱǫᴜᴀʀᴇ vowel phoneme
The ꜱǫᴜᴀʀᴇ vowel phoneme is an English vowel phoneme consisting of the vowel sound English speakers use for its keyword square.[1]
Words in the ꜱǫᴜᴀʀᴇ lexical set are pronounced with this phoneme.
Traditional RP pronunciation was as a centring diphthong, with the diphthongal nucleus being open-mid front unrounded vowel [ɛ] and the diphthongal glide a schwa [ə]. Modern RP tends to pronounce this as a long monophthongal open-mid front unrounded vowel [ɛː]