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Note 2. Before a vowel the letter r is pronounced:

poorer, surer, plural mral, jury, junst

purer, fury, purist, furious, curious, mu rai, during, purify

Note 3- Instead of [ua], [jua] English people often use [oa], [joa], or even [o:], [jo:]. Thus, many of the above words have three possibl' pronunciationg:

poor    [pua, poa, po:|    pure    Ipjua, pjoe, pjo.j.

surę    [/ua, /oa, /o:]    cure    [kjua, kjoa, kjo:]

plural    [pluaH, ploarl, plo:rl]    curious    [kjuarias, kjoarias,    kjorriaa]

Note 4. [ua] and [jua] must at any ratę be distinguished and differentia from [u:] and [ju:]:

boo boor    pew pure

moo moor    Kew cure

es-    c. Diphthong |ea)

§ 57. This sound occurs in hair, hare, farę, bare. In this diphthong V glide starts with a sound which is just a little morę front than Polish e,_: intermediate between [e] and [*], and it ends with [a]. In contrast W| [ia] and [u»], the first element is aiightly prdonged, whereas the seff element is mereły marked, especially in words where another syfi¹ foliowa. The letter r is not pronounced unless followed by a vo^J

Examples:

air, hair, fair, pair, chair, stair, affair, repair, despair dare, care, hare, farę, share, stare, declare, aware, prepare careful, careless, haidesa, airlesa, faimess, farewell

Note 1. In the position before an r which is pronounced, [ea] soundsl similar to Polish e, but [r] is different (flapped):

aiiy, hairy, dairy, fairy, vary, Mary, parents, fairest, rarest.

Also compare:

ENGUSH: bearer - POUSH: bera

Note 2. [ea] should be differentiated from [a:]:

air err pair purr hair her fair fur

Nuli! 3. Also [ei] and [es] should be differentiated. [ei] starts with n mnsiderably closer [e]:

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hair    may    marę

pair    clay    Clare

dare    bay    bare

jr    l The combination of [ei] with [s] is commonly levelled to [e»].

t Tlili u, in play, gay, there is [ei], but player, gayer are pronounced with nr [ce]. The word prayer in the sense of worship is pronounced hut in the sense of a person praying it is [preia].