| Spelling | IPA | Examples | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
<ar> | /ɑr/ (RP ɑː) | START, car, bar, far, star, card, dark, remark, target | |
/ɔr/ (RP /ɔː/) (NORTH) | war, warm, ward, quartz, quart, quartet | <ar> after /w/ | |
<are> | /ɛr/ | SQUARE, care, fare | |
/ɑ/ | are | ||
<air> | /ɛr/ | air, fair, chair | |
<er> | /ər=ɚ/ | lettER, paper | |
<ear> | /ɪr/ | NEAR, ear, dear, fear, gear, hear | Most often |
/ɝ=ɜr/ (NURSE) | learn, pearl, earl, earth, rehearse, earnest | Less often | |
/ɛ/ | bear, wear, pear | sometimes | |
/ɑ/ | heart | exception | |
<eir> (rare) | /ɛ/ | their, heir | |
/ɪ/ | weird | ||
<or> | /ɔr/ (RP /ɔː/) | NORTH, born, cork, form, lord, normal, organ | |
/ɔr/ (RP /ɔː/) | FORCE, sport, fort, import, port, export, torn, borne, sword, pork | ||
/ɑr/ (RP /ɒr/, Canada /ɔr/) | borrow, sorrow, sorry, tomorrow | ||
/ɔr/, (East /ɑr/, RP /ɒr/) | orange, origin, orator, forest, Florida, historic, moral, porridge, horrible, horror | ||
/ɔr/ | forum, memorial, oral, storage, story | ||
/ər=ɚ/ | humor, color, actor, anchor, author, doctor, error, favor, forbid, forget, forgive | ||
<ore> | /ɔr/ | more, score, sore, store, shore, core, bore, chore, gore, before | |
<oor> | /ɔr/ | door, floor | |
/ʊ/ | boor | ||
<oar> | /ɔ/ | oar, boar, soar, roar, board, hoard | |
<our> | /ɝ/ | journey, journal, courier, courage, courtesy | (52%) |
/ɔ/ | four, pour, your, mourn, course | (48%) | |
<ur> | /ɝ=ɜr/ (NURSE) | NURSE, sure, turn, hurt, fur | (most) |
/jɝ/ | cure, pure, fury, secure, furious, bureaucrat | (some words) | |
/ɛr/ | bury | (exception) | |
<urr> | /ɝ/ | furry | |
<ire> | /ɑɪɚ/ | fire, dire, hire, mire, tire, wire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English
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