WikiQueer:IPA for English

The pronunciation of English words in WikiQueer is given in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using the following transcription, which is not specific to any one dialect. For a basic introduction to IPA, see WikiQueer:IPA/Introduction. If you feel it is necessary to add a pronunciation respelling, please use the conventions of WikiQueer's pronunciation respelling key.

To compare these symbols with dictionary IPA conventions you may be more familiar with, see Help:IPA conventions for English, which lists the conventions of eight English dictionaries published in Britain, Australia, and the United States. For a more complete key to the IPA, see WikiQueer:IPA, which includes sounds that do not occur in English. If the IPA symbols do not display properly on your browser, see the links at the bottom of this page.

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(Words in are the standard lexical sets. Words in the lexical sets  and  are given two transcriptions, respectively one with  and one with, and with  and ).