Alphabet & Pronunciation

English alphabet

Letter names

The names of the letters are rarely spelled out, except when used in compound words (for example tee-shirt, deejay, emcee, okay, aitch-less, wye-level, etc.), derived forms (for example exed out, effing, to eff and blind, etc.), and in the names of objects named after letters (for example em (space) in printing and wye (junction) in railroading). The forms listed below are from the Oxford English Dictionary. Vowels stand for themselves, and consonants usually have the form consonant + ee or e + consonant (e.g. bee and ef). The exceptions are the letters aitch, jay, kay, cue, ar, ess (but es- in compounds ), wye, and zed. Attested plural forms of the vowels are aes, ees, and oes. Plurals of consonants end in -s or, in the cases of aitch, ess, and ex, in -es. Of course, all letters may stand for themselves, generally in capitalized form (okay or OK, emcee or MC), and plurals may be based on these (As, Bs, etc.)

Letter	Letter name	Pronunciation
A	a	/eɪ/
B	bee	/biː/
C	cee	/siː/
D	dee	/diː/
E	e	/iː/
F	ef (eff as a verb)	/ɛf/
G	gee	/dʒiː/
H	aitch	/eɪtʃ/
	haitch sometimes in Irish or Australian English	/heɪtʃ/
I	i	/aɪ/
J	jay	/dʒeɪ/
	jy in Scottish English	/dʒaɪ/
K	kay	/keɪ/
L	el	/ɛl/
M	em	/ɛm/
N	en	/ɛn/
O	o	/oʊ/
P	pee	/piː/
Q	cue	/kjuː/
R	ar	/ɑr/[4]
S	ess (spelled es- in compounds like es-hook)	/ɛs/
T	tee	/tiː/
U	u	/juː/
V	vee	/viː/
W	double-u	/ˈdʌbəljuː/ in careful speech[5]
X	ex	/ɛks/
Y	wy or wye	/waɪ/
Z	zed	/zɛd/
	zee in American English	/ziː/
	izzard in some dialect expressions	/ˈɪzɚd/

Pronunciation

The sounds represented here are those of British English spoken with an R.P. (Received Pronounciation) accent. Other varieties of English differ considerably in pronunciation, especially the vowels and diphthongs.

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