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The combination EI in the root: seize, receive, receipt, deceive, conceive, perceive, ceiling, Leigh.
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The vowel combination IE in the suffix: Annie, Carrie, Katie, auntie.
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The combination EY in the suffix: honey, hockey, journey, money, monkey, Sydney, Casey, Rod-
ney.
Vowel combinations, which represent sound [e]:
• The combination EA: bread, dead, head, header, lead, read, spread, thread, dread, tread, instead; al-
ready, ready, steady, meadow; sweat, sweater, threat, threaten; breath, death, health, stealth, wealth; weath-
er, leather, feather; measure, pleasure, treasure, treasury, pleasant, peasant, pheasant; dealt, meant, cleanse,
jealous, realm; heaven, heavy, endeavor, deaf; breakfast, breast, treachery, weapon, friend.
Vowel combinations, which represent sound [ei]:
• The combination AI before a consonant in the root: aim, aid, sail, tail, main, vain, rain, raise, faint,
paint, saint, strait, straight, remain, complain, disdain, explain, restrain.
• The combination EI before a consonant in the root: rein, veil, vein, feign, reign, deign, sleigh,
weigh, weight, eight, freight, neighbor.
• The combination AY at the end of the word: day, gray, may, say, way, hay, play, pray, stay, stray,
essay, relay, delay.
• The combination EY at the end of the word: they, prey, hey, whey, survey, obey, convey.
• The combination EA: break, great, steak.
The sound [ai] is represented by the limited number of words.
• Combinations IE, EI, EY, UY: die, tie, lie, pie, vie; dye, lye, rye, bye; height, either, neither; eye,
geyser; buy, guy.
The sound [au] is represented by:
• The combination OU: out, about, doubt, couch, cloud, loud, proud, foul, noun, announce, bounce,
ounce, pound, found, ground, hound, around, sound, surround, count, account, amount, mountain, house,
mouse, louse, blouse, mouth, south, scout, shout, bough, plough, drought.
The sound [o:] is represented by:
• The combination AU: cause, pause, applause, sauce, audio, audience, fraud, August, auto, author,
Paul, fault, launch, laundry.
• The combination AUGHT: caught, taught, daughter, slaughter, haughty.
• The combination OUGHT: bought, brought, fought, ought, sought, thought, cough.
• The combinations OUR, OAR, OOR: course, court, four, mourn, pour, source, your; board, hoarse,
hoard, roar, soar, broad; door, floor.
• The combination QUA (quar, quan, quadr): quart, quarter, headquarters, quantity, quantum, quali-
ty, quadrant.
The sound [oi] is represented by:
• The combination OI: oil, ointment, boil, foil, spoil, toil, coin, join, voice, void, avoid, point, ap-
point, noise, poison, hoist, moist, exploit, loiter, embroidery.
• The combination OY: boy, joy, ploy, soy, toy, annoy, destroy, employ, corduroy, oyster, loyal, roy-
al, voyage.
The sound [ou] is represented by:
• the letter combination OA: oat, oak, coal, goal, load, road, boat, coat, soak, toast, roast, coast,
boast, coach, approach, cockroach.
• OE, OUGH, OU in a limited number of words: toe, roe, doe, foe, woe; though, although, dough;
soul, shoulder, poultry, boulder, mould / mold.
Spelling patterns for the sound [u:]:
• Combination OO as [u:]: food, mood, room, cool, pool, school, scoop, moon, cartoon, tooth, boots,
poodle, ooze, choose, soothe, shoot, too, zoo, bamboo, taboo, kangaroo, shampoo, tattoo.
• Combination OU as [u:]: group, soup, loupe, cougar, coupon, mousse, route, routine, wound, sou-
venir, through, rouge.
• Combination OE as [u:]: shoe, canoe.
• Combination UE as [u:]: true, blue, clue, glue.
• Combination UI as [u:]: juice, fruit, bruise, cruise, recruit, sluice.
The sound [yu:] is represented by:
• Combination EU as [yu:]: eucalyptus, euphemism, feud, neurotic, neutral.
• Combinations UE, UI as [yu:]: hue, cue, due, sue, pursue, suit.
• After Y always [yu:]: yule, yuletide, Yukon; youth, yew
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