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    <h1>Minimal Pairs</h1>
    <p class="subtitle">Vowel sounds: "here" /ɪə/ vs "hair" /eə/</p>

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        <img src="ph16.gif" alt="here phoneme">
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        <img src="ph17.gif" alt="hair phoneme">
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        <tr><td class="left">here</td><td class="right">hair</td></tr>
        <tr><td class="left">beer</td><td class="right">bare</td></tr>
        <tr><td class="left">deer</td><td class="right">dare</td></tr>
        <tr><td class="left">fear</td><td class="right">fair</td></tr>
        <tr><td class="left">ear</td><td class="right">air</td></tr>
        <tr><td class="left">pier</td><td class="right">pair</td></tr>
        <tr><td class="left">mere</td><td class="right">mare</td></tr>
        <tr><td class="left">rear</td><td class="right">rare</td></tr>
        <tr><td class="left">weir</td><td class="right">where</td></tr>
        <tr><td class="left">leer</td><td class="right">lair</td></tr>
        <tr><td class="left">spear</td><td class="right">spare</td></tr>
        <tr><td class="left">sheer</td><td class="right">share</td></tr>
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