Sound correspondences between English accents

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects. The symbols for the diaphonemes are given in bold, followed by their most common phonetic values. Abbreviations listThe following abbreviations are used in this article for regional varieties of English: See Pronunciation respelling for English for phonetic transcriptions used in different dictionaries. Consonants^This is a compromise IPA transcription, which covers most dialects of English.^/t/, is pronounced [ɾ] in some positions in AmE, AuE, sometimes in EnE, and in American-influenced HKE.^/t/ is pronounced [ʔ] in some positions in SSE, EnE, AmE and AuE.^/t/ is pronounced [t̞] non-initially in IrE.^/d/ is pronounced [ɾ] if preceded and followed by vowels in GA and Australian English.^The labiodental fricative /f/ is often pronounced as bilabial [ɸ] after the bilabials /p/, /b/, and /m/, as in up-frontGA:[ʌpˈɸɹʌnt], Cub fanGA:[ˈkʰʌbɸæn], tomfooleryGA:[ˌtʰɑmˈɸuɫəɹi].^The labiodental fricative /v/ is often pronounce