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On Wikipedia, the pronunciation of words is shown using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The tables below provide a key to the IPA symbols used for English pronunciations in a diaphonemic scheme. Please note that some of these symbols are used in ways specific to Wikipedia, and may differ from their usage in dictionaries.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Help:IPA/English” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.