Someone designed a game to test your IPA skills. (You should realize that it’s broad transcription, so the R’s are right-side up, for example.) My only problem was actually spelling the words correctly in normal human spelling! If only English had followed Shaw’s lead to simplify spelling!
Commenting on a question about the “Flat-A” sound and why even good speakers from NPR often default to this.
If you need to type just a little bit of IPA (International Phonetics Alphabet) and don’t want to download and install a whole font package and learn how to work with it, you can use this webpage to create the phonetic phrase—and then copy & paste it into your document. It’s a little odd, the simple things that excite me…
