010 minimal pairs vowels

Prof. Francisco Zabala - 2015

Minimal Pairs – Vowels
Make sure you can show the contrast that exists between these vowels. Remember that this is the most
difficult area for Spanish speakers.

.h9.

.H.

.d.

deed
reed
wheel
seat
eat
cheeks
sleep
been/bean
feel
lead
teen

did
rid
will
sit
it
chicks
slip

bin
fill
lid
tin

dead
read/red
well
set
ate
cheques
slept
Ben
fell
led
ten

.d.

.29.



head
bed
ten
west
Ben
n
debt

end
pet
feather
any

heard
bird
turn
worst
burn
urn
dirt
earned
pert
further
Ernie

.@9.

.P.

last
cast
heart
large
part
shark

lost
cost

hot
lodge
pot
shock







.U.

.P.

luck
hut
bucks
cup
bus
cut
stuck
sung
nut
rung
lung

lock
hot
box

cop
boss
cot
stock
song
not
wrong
long

.P.

.N9.

spot
shot
pot
not
fox
cot

sport
short
port
naught
forks
caught

.z.

.U.

.@9.

back
bad
ban
bat
cap
cat
clack
ham
hat
lack
match

buck
bud
bun
but
cup
cut
cluck
hum
hut
luck
much

bark
bard
barn

Bart
carp
cart
clerk
harm
heart
lark
march



.H?.

.d?.

beer
fear
cheer
here/hear
tear
clear
dear/deer
ear
pier/peer
spear
really

bear
fair/fare
chair

hair/hare
tear
Claire
dare
air/heir
pear/pair
spare
rarely

.T.

.t9.

pull
soot
full
look
wood
could

pool
suit
fool
Luke
wooed
cooed



Source:

Munro Mackenzie, M.D. (1967). Modern English Pronunciation Practice. London: Longman.