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    <h1>Minimal Pairs – <span class="phoneme">/&#618;&#601;/</span> and <span class="phoneme">/e&#601;/</span></h1>

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        <span class="phoneme">/&#618;&#601;/</span> as in <strong>"here"</strong>
        &nbsp; · &nbsp;
        <span class="phoneme">/e&#601;/</span> as in <strong>"hair"</strong>
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        <tr><td>here</td><td>hair</td></tr>
        <tr><td>beer</td><td>bare</td></tr>
        <tr><td>deer</td><td>dare</td></tr>
        <tr><td>fear</td><td>fair</td></tr>
        <tr><td>ear</td><td>air</td></tr>
        <tr><td>pier</td><td>pair</td></tr>
        <tr><td>mere</td><td>mare</td></tr>
        <tr><td>rear</td><td>rare</td></tr>
        <tr><td>weir</td><td>where</td></tr>
        <tr><td>leer</td><td>lair</td></tr>
        <tr><td>spear</td><td>spare</td></tr>
        <tr><td>sheer</td><td>share</td></tr>
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        Read the words aloud, concentrating on the difference between the two vowel sounds.
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