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Long "E" sound

 

Is a phonetic symbol that corresponds to the vowel sound in words like "year", "ear", "bee" and "deer". 

 

This diphthong is informally called “long e” or the long sound of the letter e.

 

 

 

“Long e” in combinations

"ea": beach, beat, bleach, breathe, cheat, cream, creature, deal, dream, each, easy, eat, 

feature, heat, increase, jeans, leader, leave, meal, mean, meat, pea, peach, peak, 

please, reach, read, repeat, reason, reveal, 

scream, sea, seal, seat, steal, steam, stream, teach, team, weak.

 

Note that "ea" sounds /e/ in many exceptions such as head pearl, or ready. (they sound like a short "E".)

 

"ee":

agree - between - feel - free - keep - meet - need - see - seem - week

 

"ei":

ceiling - conceive - receipt-believe- chief-vein.

 

Exceptions as /eɪ/: eight - neighbour - weigh- eight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The sound that diohthong  "ea" produces

 

each
peach-reach
teach-lead 
read-leaf
leave-beak
leak-peak
weak-squeak
deal-heal
real-squeal
cream-dream
stream -team 
bean-clean 
jeans-cheap
ear -hear
fear-spear
year-feat
cheat-wheat
east-feast
least-please
tease-crease
grease-breathe
leave-pea 
sea-flea
reason-season

 

 

 

 

 

 

The sound that diohthong  "ee" produces

 

beecharbol de haya-speech-screech
need-reedjunco
seed-weed
bleed-cheek
leekpuerro-week
feel-heel
peel-reelcarrete
steel-seem
been-screen
queen-deep
weepllorar-lamentar-cheep
creep-sheep
beer-deer
peer-steer
meet-sweet
street-breeze
freeze-squeeze
between-thirteen
fourteen-bee

free-three
agree-coffee
degree-committee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Seat                        Sit

Bean                       Bin

Cheap                      Chip

Feet                         Fit

Eat                          It

Sheep                      Ship

Leap                         Lip

Steel                         Still

Green                     Grinsonreir

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When does the letter "E" alone sounds like  ɪə ?

 

In words like 

here-these-theme-gene
breve-cede-accede
concede-precede-concrete
compete-complete-delete
obsolete-adhere-severe
sincere-interfere-persevere
Chinese-Japanese-Portuguese

Whenever the word ends with a silent "e" the vowel before will sound as in its long sound. 

 

 

Notice that in words like:

Sincere

Interior

Series

Imperial

Sphere

Period

Bacteria

Serious

Cereal

Inferior

Superior

Hero

Here

The "E" is right before an "r" and so the sound will be as in the phoneme ɪə

 

 

 

Words ending in EY, tent be pronounced as in the phoneme ɪə

 

 

key
money
honey
parsley

donkey
monkey
turkey
kidney
chimney

alley
valley
pulley
trolley
survey

alley

attorney

coney

hockey

jokey
journey

ETC.

Words begenning with prefix "re" (a prefix from Latin, used with the

 meaning “again” or “again and again” 

to indicate repetition,)

 

Where the e sound is more like /ɪ/

 

review- look again

redo- do again

reinvent- invent again

revisit- visit again

  • recede

  • redye

  • reflect

  • refold

  • regain

  • reiterate

  • rejoin

  • relate

  • relive

  • remain

  • remarry

  • remind

  • repay

  • repeat

  • resell

  • return

  • reverse

  • rewarm

  • rewrit

 

 

Words begenning with prefix "pre"

 

(a prefix fromLatin, where it meant “before”

 applied freely as a prefix, with the meanings 

“prior to,” “in advance of,” “early,”“beforehand,” 

“before,” “in front of,)

 

 

preschool- a special school that young children attend before elementary school

prepare- to get ready for an event before it happens

predate- (verb) something that happens before another thing happens These dinosaur bones predate humans.

prevent- to stop something before it happens

predict- to guess something before it happens

 

  • prefix: morpheme fastened ‘before’ a root of a word

  • prevent: come ‘before’

  • precise: cut ‘before’

  • prejudice: judge ‘before’

  • preview: see ‘before’

  • predict: say ‘before’

  • prepare: get ready ‘before’

  • precaution: a being cautious ‘beforehand’

  • prefer: carry ‘before’ others

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pre- as a prefix is not stressed and is pronounced /prɪ/ (pri) or /priː/ (pree); for example “pretend” /prɪˈtend/ (pri-tend), “presuppose” /ˌpriːsəˈpəʊz/ (pree-sə-poh’z).

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