How To Pronounce Calm
calm
UK
Phonemic
/kɑːm/
Phonetic
[kʰɑ̃ːm]
US
Phonemic
/kɑːm/
In British English, calm is pronounced /kɑːm/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [kʰɑ̃ːm]. In American English, it is pronounced /kɑːm/.
Calm has one syllable. British and American speakers say it the same way.
Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.
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