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*with "ci": efficient - musician - racial - special | *with "ci": efficient - musician - racial - special | ||
*with "ce": ocean | *with "ce": ocean | ||
− | *with "s": sugar - sure | + | *with "s": Asia /ˈeɪʃə/ ''or'' /ˈeɪʒə/ - sugar - sure |
*"x" as /kʃ/: anxious | *"x" as /kʃ/: anxious | ||
*with "ch": machine | *with "ch": machine |
Revision as of 15:37, 6 December 2018
shoe /ʃuː/ |
æ | ɑː | |
trap | father - start | |
e | eɪ | eə |
dress | face | square |
ɪ | iː | ɪə |
kit | fleece | near |
ɒ | əʊ | ɔː |
lot | goat | taught |
ʊ | uː | ʊə |
foot | goose | mature |
juː | jʊə | |
cute | cure | |
ʌ | ə | ɜː |
strut | comma | nurse |
aɪ | aʊ | ɔɪ |
price | mouth | choice |
Normal sound: /b, d, f, g, h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w, z/ | ||
ʃ | tʃ | ŋ |
show | church | sing |
ʒ | dʒ | j |
usual | judge | you |
θ | ð | s |
think | that | see |
IPA | Stress |
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ˈ | Primary stress hotel /həʊˈtel/ |
ˌ | Secondary stress understand /ˌʌndərˈstænd/ |
IPA | Syllabification |
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. | nitrate /ˈnaɪ.treɪt/, night-rate /ˈnaɪt.reɪt/ |
In Received Pronunciation and in General American, the IPA phonetic symbol /ʃ/ corresponds to the initial consonant sound in words like "shoe", and "she" and the final one in "push" and "fish".
/ʃ/ is an unvoiced consonant; its voiced counterpart is IPA phoneme /ʒ/.
/ʃ/ is a fricative; its affricate counterpart is IPA phoneme /tʃ/.
Contents
Common words
- with "sh": cash - crash - dish - establish - fashion - finish - fish - flash - fresh - push - relationship - shake - shall - shape - share - she - shift - shine - ship - shock - shoe - shoot - shop - short - should - shoulder - show - wash - wish
- with "ss":
- with "ssi": commission - depression - discussion - expression - impression - mission - professional - Russia - session
- with "ssu": assure - issue - pressure - tissue
- with "ti":
- with "tio": action - assumption - condition - definition - education - function - generation - information - location - mention - nation - option - rational - station - tradition - variation
- with "tia": essential - initial - initiative - partial - potential - substantial
- with "tie": patience - patient
- with "ci": efficient - musician - racial - special
- with "ce": ocean
- with "s": Asia /ˈeɪʃə/ or /ˈeɪʒə/ - sugar - sure
- "x" as /kʃ/: anxious
- with "ch": machine
/ʃ/ or /s/
- associate
Less common words
- with "sh": bush, shampoo
- with "si": controversial
- with "ssi": aggression, obsession
- with "sc": conscience, conscious, fascism
- with "ci": delicious, electrician, malicious, politician
- with "ce": cetacean, crustacean
- "x" as /kʃ/: crucifixion, flexion
In words of French origin /ʃ/ can be spelled "ch".
Anticipated pronunciation difficulties depending on L1
Preconceived ideas and other interferences from L1 obviously interfere in many cases with how students perceive - and pronounce - sounds/words in English. The following sections aims to point out some of the most typical difficulties teachers and students may encounter regarding pronunciation.
Spanish
While Spanish does have /tʃ/, it doesn't have /ʃ/, so there'll be a tendency to pronounce "shoes" as "choose", "shop" as "chop" and "sheet" as "cheat" (this latter example having another, notorious pronunciation difficulty...). Likewise, practice is needed with /ʒ/ vs /ʃ/, as in pleasure, leisure, etc.
It is very difficult for Spanish speakers to pronounce the combination /ʃr/ as in "shrimp". In Spain the movie Shrek is pronounced [eʃ.ɾek] or even [etʃ.ɾek], and in Latin America it is pronounced [ʃ.ɾek] or [ʃe.ɾek], but most likely [tʃ.ɾek].
See also
- Decoding exercises: "sh"
- Decoding exercises: "sion"
- Decoding exercises: "ss"
- Pronunciation
- Pronunciation exercises: /ʃ/ vs /tʃ/
- Pronunciation exercises: /ʒ/ vs /ʃ/
- IPA phoneme /s/
- IPA phoneme /ʒ/