e = ɛ
Drop your jaw and spread your lips slightly.
| ever | any | end | everything | edge | elegant |
| glen | bet | well | selling | never | friends |
e̠ɪ = ɛː
| aid | aim | able | age | ape | ate |
| bake | tame | laid | train | mate | fate |
| say | way | day | play | clay | fey |
æ = a
This front vowel is flat and slightly lengthened
| answer | apple | ask | am | abbey | anvil |
| flat | that | back | cat | stand | grand |
aɪ̆ = ɔɪ̆
The sound aɪ̆ changes to the sound ɔɪ̆ as in “toy”
| I’m | ice | I’d | isle | ivy | idle |
| fly | slice | chime | blind | while | quiet |
| my | by | lie | sty | shy | high |
ɜː = ɛə̆
This vowel ɜː changes to the diphthong ɛə̆ as in “air”.
| earth | err | earn | earl | urge | early |
| world | bird | shirt | worm | birth | serve |
| her | were | sir | prefer | cur | fur |
ʌ = ʊ
The last middle vowel ʌ changes to the second back vowel ʊ as in “wood”
| up | ugly | umbrella | Ulster | umbrage | us |
| mother | supper | luck | hut | much | bump |
u: = ju
Round the lips and put a slight “ju” in the sound for Northern Irish.
| ooze | tune | food | moon | book |
| true | blue | who | do | new |
oa = ɔː
Words with “oa” in the spelling are pronounced with 
(aw).
| oatmeal | oat | oak | oaf | oar | oath |
| boat | goal | loaf | toad | road | float |
ɔɪ̆ = aĬ
The sound ɔɪ̆ is pronounced with aĬ as in “ice”
| oil | ointment | oily | oyster | oiler | oil can |
| poison | annoy | hoist | voice | coil | join |
| boy | toy | destroy | enjoy | coy | alloy |
oʊ = oː
This diphthong oʊ becomes the long vowel oː
| only | ode | old | omen | owe |
| home | poet | most | alone | robe |
| oh | go | snow | flow | woe |
ɔː = ɑː
The last back vowel ɔː is substituted for the vowel ɑː as in “aw”
| saw | warm | all | talk | call | ought |