E: 1. Более двух слогов E на конце слова не произносится.

die, mate, bottle, make, hope,

fame, note, love, like, hate, move, groove, taste, cattle, change, bridge, late, life, wake, little

2. E в односложном слове произносится как [i:]: me, he, she, we, be

3. Многосложное слово, ЕЕ на конце читается как [i:]: fee, employee, agree, see,
addressee, referee, refugee, payee, bee, trainee, nominee, tree

Гласный в открытом слоге произносится как в алфавите.

a [eɪ]: mate, cake, bake, take, sake, betray, late, safe, save, baby, female, male, fame, hate, name,
blade, fade, wake, lake, plane, plate, hesitate, taken

e [i:]: Pete, behind, he, we, be, eve

u [ju:]: mute, huge, tune, funeral, museum, universe, produce, music , [u:]: rule, flute, June,
lunar.

i [aɪ]: bite, fine, side, hide, bride, pride, iris, icy, ivory, like, Mike, behind, pine, life (искл. live
[i:]).

y [aɪ]: byte, type, try, cry, sly, spy, my, apply, wry, descry, fly

o [əu]: hope, note, go, zero, frozen, suppose, pole, sole

Гласный в закрытом слоге произносится:

a [æ]: map, hat, hatter, rat, sad, that, lamp, wombat, snatch, cat, fat, matter

e [e]: bed, wedding, gen, men, nest, chest, pen, belt, set, fed, red, represent

u [ʌ]: nut, hut, make-up, blush, run, fun, sun, cut, cup, bus, hug, nutmeg

i [ɪ]: hit, bit, gigabit, shit, chit, splinter, miff, cliff, did, pig, skin, mint

y [ɪ]: myth, symbol, system, mystify

o [ɔ]: pox, box, pot, stop, not, hot, dog, clot, common, politic, pol, cold

Исключения:

1. a + s + согл., a читается как [a:]: task, pass, master, past, fast, class, cast, ask, gasp,
faster
2. a + th, a читается как [a:]: path, father, rather, bath
3. w + a, a [ɔ:]: was, wander, want, warrant, war, walden, wall, wardrobe, walk, wallpaper,
wallet
4. a + l + согл, а читается как [ɔ:]: walk, chalk, stalk, also, false, halk, call, stall, recall,
fall. НО! a + l + f (alf) [a:]: half, calf, Alf
5. о + m, n, v, th – [ʌ]: dove, love, money, honey, month, London, some, come, glove,
company, comfortable, front, son, become, other, brother, none, color, comfort
6. – ost [əust]: host, most, post
7. y в конце многосложного слова [i:]: happy, merry, noisy, scary, fairy, truly, closely