Pronunciation: The "p" and "f" sounds
Minimal Pairs
Click for AudioFace | Pace | Suffer | Supper | Cuff | Cup |
Fill | Pill | Differ | Dipper | Chief | Cheap | Fan | Pan | Laughable | Lapable | Cough | Cop | Full | Pull | Chiefest | Cheapest | Chaff | Chap | Flop | Plop | Refs | Reps | Beef | Beep | Fast | Past | Coffer | Copper | Laugh | Lap | Fair | Pair | Reefer | Reaper | Puff | Pup | Fail | Pail | Coughs | Cops | Rife | Ripe | File | Pile | Left | Leapt | Strife | Stripe |
In PhrasesClick for Audio
A cup of coffee, please |
Offer him an apple |
The cup's half empty |
Keep a fast pace |
Please pass the fruit |
The first place prize |
Fair play or foul play |
Pay the piper/pay the fifer |
SentencesClick for Audio
Stand up and face the press, Mr. President. |
In Faye's days, the phrase was "Flower Power." |
The fish were fresh from the produce shelf. |
Fools laugh now, but they will pay later. |
Fran's plan was referred to the higher-ups. |
The party's at a quarter past four. |
"Get off the phone, Fred," snapped Father. |
Paul can't help fumbling the football. |
"That's enough, Penny," replied Mr. Phillips. |
PoetryClick for Audio
Taffy was a Welshman; Taffy was a thief. |
Taffy came to my house and stole a leg of beef. |
I went to Taffy's house; Taffy was in bed. |
I took the leg of beef and bopped him on the head.
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Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair. |
Said Simple Simon to the pieman, "Let me taste your ware."
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Said the pieman to Simple Simon, "Show me first your penny."
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Said Simple Simon to the pieman, "Indeed I have not any."
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