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2. Pronunciation Supplements
Lists, sentences and stories to aid in the learning and teaching
of standard American English sounds
Second Edition
by
Joel Kindrick, M.A.

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Second Edition
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ISBN: 978-1-4276-4494-7
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4. i
Table of Contents
About the Author / How to Download the Audio Files................................................iv
Foreword........................................................................................................................v
Vowels...........................................................................................................................1
Vowel Triangle........................................................................................................2
A ..............................................................................................................................3
A Comparison..........................................................................................................4
A Sentences .............................................................................................................5
A Story 1 - Albert's Last Escapade..........................................................................6
A Story 2 - Annabelle's Ants...................................................................................7
E...............................................................................................................................8
E Comparison ..........................................................................................................9
E Sentences............................................................................................................10
E Story - Eric's Objective ......................................................................................11
Short A vs. Short E Comparison ...........................................................................12
Short A and Short E Sentences..............................................................................13
Short A and Short E Story - The Fan's of Sandy Hemmingway ...........................14
I..............................................................................................................................15
I Comparison .........................................................................................................16
I Sentences.............................................................................................................17
I Story - I Like Flying............................................................................................18
Long E vs. Short I..................................................................................................19
Long E and Short I Sentences................................................................................21
Long E and Short I Story - Groundskeeper Pete ...................................................22
O ............................................................................................................................23
O Comparison........................................................................................................24
O Sentences ...........................................................................................................25
O Story - Arnie's Odessey .....................................................................................26
Short A vs. Short O Comparison...........................................................................27
Short A and Short O Sentences .............................................................................28
Short A and Short O Story - Claude's Angling Adventure....................................29
U ............................................................................................................................30
U Comparison........................................................................................................31
U Sentences ...........................................................................................................32
U Story - Duck Hunting With Uncle Buck............................................................33
UL List...................................................................................................................34
UL Sentences.........................................................................................................35
UL Story - Dale Was Not About To Fail...............................................................36
OO .........................................................................................................................37
OO Sentences ........................................................................................................38
OO Story - Susan and Stuart..................................................................................39
OI...........................................................................................................................40
OI Sentences..........................................................................................................41
OI Story - The Ploy That Rid Roy of Troy............................................................42
OU .........................................................................................................................43
OU Sentences ........................................................................................................44
OU Story - How to Growl at a Mouse...................................................................45

5. ii
ÛR..........................................................................................................................46
ÛR Sentences.........................................................................................................47
ÛR Story - Sir Ernest and the Curse of the German Hermit ................................48
Mixed Vowel Sentences........................................................................................49
-ed..........................................................................................................................50
Dental Stops...........................................................................................................51
Unvoiced Sounds...................................................................................................52
Voiced Sounds.......................................................................................................53
-ed Sentences.........................................................................................................54
-ed Exercise ...........................................................................................................55
-ed Story - David's Mission ...................................................................................56
Consonants...................................................................................................................57
/b/ vs. /f/ Comparison .................................................................................................58
/b/ vs. /f/ Sentences................................................................................................61
/b/ vs. /p/ Comparison .................................................................................................62
/b/ vs. /p/ Sentences ...............................................................................................64
/b/ vs. /v/ Comparison .................................................................................................65
/b/ vs. /v/ Sentences ...............................................................................................66
/b/ Story - Baby Bulldogs......................................................................................67
/f/ vs. /v/ Comparison .................................................................................................68
/f/ vs. /v/ Sentences................................................................................................69
/f/ vs. /p/ Comparison .................................................................................................70
/f/ vs. /p/ Sentences................................................................................................72
/f/ Story - Francis's Fright......................................................................................73
/p/ vs. /v/ Comparison .................................................................................................74
/p/ vs. /v/ Sentences ...............................................................................................75
/p/ Story - Perry the Perfect Parrot ........................................................................76
C as /ch/ and /sh/..........................................................................................................77
C as /ch/ and /sh/ Sentences...................................................................................78
C as /ch/ and /sh/ Story - The Cello Duo of Felicia and Leticia............................79
/ch/ vs. /j/ Comparison.................................................................................................80
/ch/ vs. /j/ Sentences ..............................................................................................81
/ch/ vs. /j/ Story - Jerry's Charmed Juggling Journeys ..........................................82
/ch/ vs. /sh/ Comparison .............................................................................................83
/ch/ vs. /sh/ Sentences............................................................................................84
/ch/ vs. /sh/ Story - Shameful Cheating.................................................................85
/d/ vs. /t/ Comparison....................................................................................................86
/d/ vs. /t/ Sentences................................................................................................90
/d/ vs. /t/ Story – The Goat That Played Dead.......................................................91
Du as /j/...........................................................................................................................92
Du as /j/ Sentences.................................................................................................93
Du as /j/ Story – Fraudulent Education .................................................................94
/g/ vs. /k/ Comparison .................................................................................................95
/g/ vs. /k/ Sentences ...............................................................................................98
/g/ vs. /k/ Story - Glarksville, Connecticut............................................................99
Soft G.........................................................................................................................100
Soft G Sentences..................................................................................................101
Soft G Story - Geriatric Gentlemen of Virginia ..................................................102

6. iii
/h/...............................................................................................................................103
/h/ Sentences........................................................................................................105
/h/ Story - Hannah's Hospital...............................................................................106
/j/ vs. /y/ Comparison ................................................................................................107
/j/ vs. /y/ Sentences..............................................................................................108
/j/ vs. /y/ Story - Yummy Jello and Yucky Egg Yolks........................................109
/l/ vs. /r/ Comparison ................................................................................................110
/l/ vs. /r/ Sentences...............................................................................................113
/l/ vs. /r/ Story - Ron the Rat ...............................................................................114
Ph and Gh as /f/ .........................................................................................................115
Ph and Gh as /f/ Sentences ..................................................................................116
Ph and Gh as /f/ Story - The Phenomena of Joseph Phillips...............................117
Words Ending in “s"..................................................................................................118
/s/ vs. /z/ Comparison ...............................................................................................120
S as /z/........................................................................................................................121
/s/ vs. /z/ Sentences..............................................................................................122
/s/ vs. /z/ Story - Ice Designing in Zander...........................................................123
/s/ vs. /sh/ Comparison...............................................................................................124
/s/ vs. /sh/ Sentences............................................................................................126
/s/ vs. /sh/ Story - Swallows in the Shirt Shop.....................................................127
/s/ vs. /th/ Comparison...............................................................................................128
/s/ vs. /th/ Sentences.............................................................................................129
th /θ/ and /ð/...............................................................................................................130
/θ/ vs. /ð/ Comparison..........................................................................................131
/θ/ vs. /ð/ Sentences .............................................................................................132
/th/ Story - Young Thaddeus Thicket's Thoughts................................................133
S as /sh/ and /j/...........................................................................................................134
S as /sh/ and /j/ Sentences....................................................................................136
S as /sh/ and /j/ Story - Sugar Sean Seamus .......................................................137
/s/ Followed by a Consonant ....................................................................................138
/s/ Followed by-a-Consonant Sentences..............................................................139
/s/ Followed by-a-Consonant Story - Slowly Spiraling Space ...........................140
T as /d/ .......................................................................................................................141
T as /d/ Sentences ................................................................................................143
T as /d/ Story - Patti's Writing: From Ghetto to Cottage.....................................144
Ti as /ch/ and /sh/.......................................................................................................145
Ti as /ch/ and /sh/ Sentences................................................................................147
Ti as /ch/ and /sh/ Story - Expeditious, Not Cautious, Sebastian........................148
Tu as /ch/, /j/ and /sh/, X as /h/, /sh/ and /z/; and Zu as /j/.........................................149
Tu as /ch/, /j/ and /sh/, X as /sh/ and /z/; and Zu as /j/ Sentences........................151
Tu as /ch/, /j/ and /sh/, X as /sh/ and /z/; and Zu as /j/ Story -
Perpetuated by Posture ............................................................................152
/v/ vs. /w/ Comparison...............................................................................................153
/v/ vs. /w/ Sentences ............................................................................................154
/v/ Story - Victor's Vagrancy...............................................................................155
/w/ Story - Wes Walter's Wild Western Adventure.............................................156

7. iv
Com- and Con- .........................................................................................................157
Com- and Con- Sentences ...................................................................................160
Com- and Con- Words Story - Construction Condemnation ..............................161
Hetronyms and Sentences..........................................................................................162
Com- and Con- Words Story - Job's Job ............................................................166
Ç as /s/, J as /h/, J as /w/ LL as /y/, N as /nyŭ/ and X as /h/ .....................................167
Ç as /s/, J as /h/, J as /w/ LL as y, N as /nyŭ/ and X as /h/ Sentences .................168
Ç as /s/, J as /h/, J as /w/ LL as y, N as /nyŭ/ and X as /h/ Story -
Jorge Jimenez: The Don Juan of Tortillas...............................................169
Silent Consonants ......................................................................................................170
Com- and Con- Sentences ...................................................................................177
Com- and Con- Words Story - Descent and Ascent of Power ............................178

8. 177
Silent Consonant Sentences
1. The plumber’s dumb thumb bomb has no doubt succumbed him into debt.
2. Naughty neighbors bought eight doughnuts for weighing right through the night.
3. Wednesday’s judges pledge to budget their smudges nudged on their
handkerchiefs.
4. Gnarly gnats gnash redesigned signs that have been aligned for foreign gnomes.
5. Knitted knapsacks, knotted knickers and knives acknowledge kneeling knights.
6. Would a colonel with a calf balk at half a salmon?
7. Ballet dancers often jostle and wrestle for the best gourmet at buffets.
8. The pseudo psychotic psychic got pneumonia while eating raspberries.
9. In Illinois columns are solemn and in Arkansas apropos governments rendezvous
with the bourgeois.
10. Faux written laws wrought whole wrongs on those who stowed swords.

9. 178
Descent and Ascent of Power
Why would anybody want to bomb the catacombs? These silent tombs were an
acknowledgement of folks that had been slaughtered for their beliefs and conscious
knowledge. The aisles were tributes to where they had sung psalms and hymns. But this
was war. And in time of war, nothing is judged and nothing is condemned. The
government was psychotic in their wrath, and they called in the bereted international
corps to defend the reign of the czar from the citizen coup seeking to wrestle power away
from the law.
The descent of the powerful and the ascent to power by the bourgeois was subtle
and obscene all at the same time for the common people saw it as a delight to knock
down the mighty. To wrench the muscle out of the leaders that had had them under their
thumb since before they were in their mothers’ wombs was their design. Those in power
would be chastened. The weight of the tight control that the authority had held on the
population was thorough and the people knew that it was now or never.
Though they did not have a military show of strength, they pledged to be
solemnly united and whole in their assignment. The government was wrong. Knives,
swords, bows and arrows, other gadgets and even crochet needles were redesigned to
give maximum force. Fidgeting with used cartridges made ricocheting capable for
mowing down the enemy in snow and debris and wracking and wreaking psychological
warfare caused the armored columns of the enemy to wreck. Although foreign powers
feigned support to align with the government, the people knew that these laissez-faire
foreigners were benign and were only awaiting the apropos leadership.
The citizens fought within borough after borough. Whereas the enemy had planes,
the rebels walked. Whereas the enemy had radio communication and had destroyed any
possibility for others to communicate in this manner, the rebels relied on writing,
listening, rendezvousing and talking. Their flow of information was quick. The rapport
they had for each other was strong. The people hustled, jostled and wriggled for any
advantage they could get. Going out in groups of twenty, they slowly wrinkled the
enemies’ plans. They created faux campaigns that answered an enemy who saw them as
fraught with fear. Strategy after strategy of the enemy went awry. The people balked at
the enemy who thought they could not be caught. The people carried on and destroyed
the authoritarians’ supply depots. Crossing the isthmus and ransacking castles located on
each isle and the larger islands, they rustled everything from the kitchen cupboards, to the
colossal lodging areas, to the great halls where bouquets sat on high ledges and wreaths
hung as if an enormous tsunami had impressively moistened those magnificent walls.
Then in the autumn the scenario transcended as they had hoped. The enemy
finally succumbed and consigned to the people and power was wrested from their hands.
The damage that was wrought on this haughty tyranny brought them to their knees. They
became clay in the palms of the citizens.
A new day has debuted. The people have chosen a new government. There is a
glow of new and better signs to come. The veterans of the fight are satisfied. They
proudly wear their badges of honor. Although some lost their limbs in battle and certainly
they lost many of their friends, they know that in this fight for freedom, it was worth it.