Minimal Pairs Vowels /ei/ /e/ Tail – Tell tail – tell bail – bell male – mel kale – kell dale – dell fail – fell gail – gel hail – hell jail – jell nail – nel pail – pell rail – prell sail – shell tale – tell whale – well … [Read more...]

Minimal Pairs Vowels /ei/ /oi/ Tail – Toil tail – toil snail – spoil bail – boil sail – soil dale – oil fail – foil kale – coil male – moyle hale – hoyle bay – boy say – soy day – toy hay – ahoy jay – joy haste – hoist … [Read more...]

Minimal Pairs Vowels /e:/ /ei/ Hair – Hay hair – hay bear – bay dare – day Llair – lay mare – may snare – say rare – ray wear – way pair – pay stare – stay glare – gay Éclair – yea spare – stray chair – clay share – slay … [Read more...]

Minimal Pairs Vowels /əu/ /u:/ Coat – Coot coat – coot boat – boot mote – mute note – newt pope – puke rope – root hope – hoop dope – loop mope – poop chose – choose tow – true glow – glue bow – brew go – grew hoe – shrew … [Read more...]

Minimal Pairs Vowels /ɑ:/ /ɑi/ Darling – Dialing darling – dialing pa – pyre ma – admire tar – tire car – sire bar – buyer far – fire jar – ire par – higher star – liar snarling – crier farling – friar starling – dryer gnarling – shire sparling – dire … [Read more...]

Minimal Pairs Vowels /əu/ /o/ Coat – Cot coat – cot boat – bot dote – dot goat – got mote – mot note – not pope – pot rope – rot soap – sop hope – hop toast – tossed boast – bossed coast – cost comb – comma ghost – momma … [Read more...]

Minimal Pairs Vowels /o:/ /ə:/ Caught – Curt caught – curt walk – work bought – burt naught – blurt wrought – wert sought – skirt taught – hurt fought – flirt ought – girt poor – purr bore – bur core – cure for – fuhr hall – hurl call – curl … [Read more...]

Minimal Pairs Vowels /o:/ /əu/ Caught – Coat caught – coat bought – boat naught – note want – won’t tore – toe got – goat block – bloke cop – cope sore – sew bossed – boast stock – stoke rot – wrote jock – joke sock – soak mob – mow … [Read more...]

Minimal Pairs Vowels /o:/ /o/ Caught – Cot caught – cot bought – bot naught – not fought – for wrought – war short – shot cohort – car gored – god bored – bod cored – cod poured – pod awful – offal soared – sod stored – shod sword – scrod … [Read more...]