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juncture of the hard and soft palate a little higher than for [a]. The
lips are spread. The opening between the jaws is not so wide as for
[ a:].
[Λ]
Task 95. Practise saying the words and the sentences correctly:
Come, cut, mummy, dull, some, just, lull, sonny, a puff, a
cup, a glove, a gun, a jump, a duck, a country cousin, a thump, a
lovely crusty buttered bun for supper.

1. Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
2. Someone must have done it for fun.
3. Pluck up your courage.
4. Cuthbert puts some mustard in his Mother’ s custard.
5. Cuthbert’s young brother wonders why mother doesn't
love her other son.

Task 96. Read the following words, pay special attention to the
difference between / æ- Λ /:
A hat – a hut a stamp – a stump
A batter – butter a banker – a bunker

These windows were shattered.
These windows were shuttered.
Mashed potatoes with butter.
Mashed potatoes with batter.

[ ɜ:] central, mid-narrow,
unrounded, long and tense - is
pronounced with the central part of the
tongue raised almost as high as for [ e ].
There is no lip rounding. The opening
between the jaws is narrow.
[ɜ:]

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