diamondcutter
Senior Member
- Joined
- Oct 21, 2014
- Member Type
- English Teacher
- Native Language
- Chinese
- Home Country
- China
- Current Location
- China
I found different dictionaries give the same word different phonetic symbols. For example, the word cat.
cat /kat/
https://www.lexico.com/definition/cat
cat /kæt/
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cat_1?q=cat
I wonder if the symbols /a/ and /æ/ stand for the same sound.
cat /kat/
https://www.lexico.com/definition/cat
cat /kæt/
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cat_1?q=cat
I wonder if the symbols /a/ and /æ/ stand for the same sound.