LEXICAL SETS
Checked Monophthongs
KIT 🥋
DRESS 👗
TRAP 🪤
LOT 🍔
STRUT 💃
FOOT 👣
FOOT-“B” popular
BATH 🛀
BATH-A castle
BATH-B can’t
BATH-C calf
BATH Prime chaff
CLOTH 👕
CLOTH-A off
CLOTH-B wrong
CLOTH-C horrid
Unstressed Codas
happY 😃
happY-A happy
happY-B rupee
lettER ✉
commA ,
Free Monophthongs
FLEECE 🐑
FLEECE-A see
FLEECE-B sea
FLEECE-C ski
NURSE 👨⚕️
NURSE fur
NURSE TERM prefer
NURSE FIR fir
PALM ✋
PALM-A father
PALM-B latte
PALM Prime khaki
THOUGHT 💡
THOUGHT-A saw
THOUGHT-B salt
GOOSE 🦢
GOOSE-A food
GOOSE-B feud
Free Centring Diphthongs
NEAR 🔜
NEAR-A weir
NEAR-B weird
NEAR-C weary
NEAR Prime weal
SQUARE 🔲
SQUARE-A scare
SQUARE-B scarce
SQUARE-C scary
START 🎬
START-A star
START-B start
START-C sari
NORTH ⬆
NORTH-A nor
NORTH-B north
NORTH-C aural
FORCE 🌬
FORCE-A fore
FORCE-B.1 forth
FORCE-B.2 fourth
FORCE-C flora
CURE 💊
CURE-A.1 boor
CURE-A.2 cure
CURE-B bourse
CURE-C boorish
CURE-C.2 curio
Free Diphthongs
FACE 😐
FACE-A plane
FACE-B plain
FACE-C McClean
PRICE 🤑
PRICE-A site
PRICE-B sight
MOUTH 👄
CHOICE 🙋
GOAT 🐐
GOAT-A groan
GOAT-B grown
J.C. Wells’ Lexical Sets and Sub-groups