Learn to
spell and pronounce the following words:
-ar -ay
char au
fait
haar
(a cold mist or fog)
beret
knar bidet
maar (a broad
volcanic crater) bray
scar café
spar coupe
tahr (mammal
similar to a goat) epee
tsar flay
melee
-airy neigh
passé
chary
per se
dairy
slay
fairy
weigh
vary
whey
wary
-ell
-aff
belle
calf
knell
chaff
quell
half
gazelle
scarf
ooze -ard
lose
bard
mews
chard
ooze
guard
ruse
shard
-err
-air
aver
au
pair
birr (sound) bare
burr
bear
cur
fair
knur
fare
myrrh heir
occur pair
purr pare
pear
-ake
tare
tear (cut, rend etc)
ache ware
brake wear
break
quake
shake -al
sheik cabal
stake canal
steak decal
-ie -eer
defy beer
espy bier
loci deer
nigh mere
nisi peer
radii pier
sigh sear
Skye smear
spry tear
(tear drops)
Thai tier
thigh veer
unify weir
-ail
-ee
bail
Brie
bale
flea
dale
ghee
gale
knee
mail
plea
sail
quay
sale
Leigh
tale
spree
fundi
-ack
Fuji
clack
algae
claque
knack
-ane
quack
bane
whack
Cain
wrack
cane
deign
-art
fain
curt
rain
pert
(pretty)
reign
quirt (riding whip)
rein
skirt
sane
spurt
skein
vein
-ort
-eece
aught
bought
geese
caught
lease
court
fleece
fought
niece
nought
Nice
ought
peace
quart
crease
wrought
cease
-oo
-erj
blew
dirge
blue
merge
chew
purge
choux (pastry) serge (strong woolen cloth)
clew (yarn) surge
clue
urge
coup
verge
flue
gnu
-erk
knew irk
pooh lurk
roux perk
shoe quirk
strew Turk
true work
-aze -erl
baize
earl
daze girl
maize knurl
maze pearl
phase purl
raise whirl
-one
-odd
agony
ebony
plod
irony
prod
litany
quad
peony
squad
testimony
wad
-eef
-eel
beef deal
fief
keel
leaf
kneel
motif
spiel
naďf
steal
sheaf
teal
thief
weal
-ock -ile
bloc aisle
block
guile
cock
isle
epoch
stile
loch
while
lock
wile
rock
stock -add
wok add
bad
-oo
bade
ague plaid
askew shad
canoe
debut -orl
guru
igloo awl
imbue ball
lasso bawl
phew maul
queue stall
revue waul
(wail like a cat)
-oor -ow as in row
Boer beau
boor crow
dour dough
Moor floe
moor flow
poor know
spoor sloe
sure slow
tour stow
-ow as in plough -am
bough clam
ciao (greeting) damn
dhow iamb
plough jamb
prow lamb
scow programme
slough (deep muddy hole) wigwam
ad
nauseam
-ate
bait -ouse
bate
eight douse
fate gauss
(physics)
fęte house
freight mouse
gait nous
gate spouse
grate grouse
straight souse
(steep in vinegar)
strait
-orc -oop
baulk or balk coop
calk coupe
croup droop
chalk loop
cork loupe
stoop
-oam stoup
swoop
comb troop
dome troupe
foam
gnome -orn
loam
roam borne
Rome faun
rhizome fawn
shorn
-ool
-ole
boule
(imitation gem stone)
school bowl
ghoul boll
(seed pod)
joule (unit
of energy) coal
spool kohl
mule dole
mewl
(whimper) foal
tulle (silk
or nylon fabric) goal
ampoule knoll
lobule
(small lobe) pole
schedule poll
nodule scroll
granule soul
capsule toll
Study the following sets of words carefully and then formulate rules and
strategies for their proper pronunciation and spelling:
Section A
quack (kwak) quaff (kwof) quail (kwayl)
quake (kwayk) qualm (kwaam)
quark (kwaark)
quart (kwawrt) quash (kwosh) quasi (kwáy sī)
queen (kween) queer (kweer) quell (kwel)
query (kweri) quest (kwest) queue (kyoo)
quick (kwik) quoin (koyn) quoit (kwoyt)
cedar (seédər) celts
(selts) cense
(sense)
cider (sīdər) cigar (si gaár) cilia (sília)
cinch (sinch) civet (sívvit)
civic (sívvik)
civil (sívv’l) Cyanide (sīə nīd) cyberspace (sībər spays)
cycad (sī kad)
cyclamen
(síkləmən)
cycle (sīk’l)
cyclone (sī klōn) cygnet (sígnət)
cylinder (síllindər)
cymbal (símb’l) cynic (sinnik)
cypher (sī fər)
Cyprus (sīprəss) cystitis (si stītiss) cysts (sists)
burial (bérri əl) calendar (kállindər)
clamour
colonel colour
courtesy
endeavour
figure
flavour
glamour harbour
honour
humour labour
occur
picture rumour
surgeon
lettuce build
business
auction caught
cauterize
claw clause
pause
sausage talk
woman route eschew
through
Section B
1.
comb crumb debt
doubt dumb lamb
numb plumber subtle
2.
adjourn adjudicate adjunct
adjust grandfather handkerchief
