How To Pronounce Goat
goat
UK
Phonemic
/ɡəʊt/
Phonetic
[ɡəʊt̚]
US
Phonemic
/ɡoʊt/
In British English, goat is pronounced /ɡəʊt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ɡəʊt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ɡoʊt/.
Goat has one syllable. The British and American pronunciations are different, so listen to both.
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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