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Phones
This table shows the consonant sounds in English. Phonemes are unmarked, but allophones are enclosed in parentheses, and dialectal phones are marked with asterisks.


 * Fortis stops and affricates are always voiceless. They are aspirated  when they occur alone at the beginning of stressed syllables, as in pin, but are unaspirated in other cases, as in spin . At the end of words, they are frequently preglottalized, as in nip.
 * Lenis stops and affricates are always unaspirated. They are partially voiced at the beginning and end of words, as in bin  and nib, and fully voiced between vowels, as in about.
 * The dental fricatives are lost in some dialects, and instead pronounced as labiodental fricatives, or dental or alveolar stops  (th-fronting or th-stopping). Both pronunciations occur in Southern England, Ireland, and in African American Vernacular English.
 * The alveolar stops are pronounced as an alveolar flap  between vowels in the United States, Canada, Australian, and New Zealand (intervocalic alveolar-flapping).
 * The alveolar stop is pronounced as a glottal stop  before nasals in most dialects, as in button, and after vowels in Southern England, as in butter  and what.
 * The rhotic consonant is the approximant  in most dialects, but sometimes a trill or flap  in Scottish, Irish, and Indian English.
 * In RP, the lateral approximant is pronounced as clear or plain  before vowels, but dark or velarized  after vowels at the end of syllables. In some dialects, dark l is pronounced as a labiovelar approximant, and in American and Scottish English most cases of  are pronounced as dark.
 * Conservative dialects like Scottish English contrast a voiceless in whine, typically analyzed as the sequence, with the voiced  in wine. The voiceless sound has merged with voiced  in most dialects.
 * is the pronunciation of the sequence as in huge.
 * Sonorants become voiceless  after voiceless obstruents (stops, affricates, fricatives): please, Cockney.
 * The glottal fricative is lost in Cockney and Yorkshire English.