| Example Words | Other Examples | ||
| er | as in her (her) | center (sen-ter) | |
| ew | as in few (few) | use (ews) | |
| i | as in pin (pin) | kit (kit) | |
| ie | as in lie (lie) | try (trie) | |
| j | as in jam (jam) | jane (jayn) | |
| o | as in song (song) | long (long) | |
| oh | as in most (mohst) | go (goh) | |
| oo | as in soon (soon) | rule (rool) | |
| or | as in corn (korn) | board (bord) | |
| ow | as in cow (kow) | out (owt) | |
| oy | as in boy (boy) | noise (noyz) | |
| sh | as in shop (shop) | fish (fish) | |
| u | as in but (but) | tongue (tung) | |
| uh | as in put (puht) | pull (puhl) | |
| y | as in yes (yes) | yet (yet) | |
| zh | as in pleasure (ple-zher) | measure (me-zher) |
Bold letters in brackets indicate an accented (stressed) syllable.
括號中的粗體字為重音節。