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Most consonants are pronounced as they would be in English, but note the following:

• bh is pronounced v
• dh is pronounced th as in THat
• g is always hard, as in go.
• gh is pronounced ch as in loch.
• th is pronounced th as in THin.
• sc is pronounced sh as in SHape.

The vowels and dipthongs have the following pronounciations:

• a is pronounced as in tap, or father at end of a word or before r.
• e is pronounced as in bet, or as a in cake at the end of a word.
• i is pronounced as in pin.
• o is pronounced as in hot, or phone at end of a word.
• u is pronounced as oo in book.
• y is pronounced as i in machine, never as in my.
• ae is pronounced as i in mine.
• ah is pronounced as in father.
• ea is pronounced as two separate syllables, eh-a.
• eg is pronounced as in a in cake, except at the end of a word, when the 'G' becomes a normal consonant.
• oa is pronounced as in road.
• oi is pronounced as in coin.
• ou is pronounced as in loud.