Lesson 60: [eɪ/ɛ/æ] – Fairy/ferry, vary/very, Mary/marry. Master the Mary-merry-marry merger before /r/ in Standard American English.
Master the Mary-merry-marry merger — how r-coloring collapses three distinct vowels.
Lesson 61: [ɪ/i] – Fill/feel, mill/meal, still/steal. Master the fill-feel merger before /l/ in Standard American English.
Master the fill-feel merger — when [ɪ] and [i] merge before /l/.
Lesson 62: [ɛ/eɪ] – Fell/fail, sell/sail, tell/tail. Master the fell-fail merger before /l/ in Standard American English.
Master the fell-fail merger — when [ɛ] and [eɪ] merge before /l/.
Lesson 63: [æ/ɛ] – Salary/celery, Allen/Ellen. Master the salary-celery merger before /l/ in Standard American English.
Master the salary-celery merger — when [æ] and [ɛ] merge before /l/.
Lesson 64: [ɔr/or] – Horse/hoarse, for/four, war/wore. Master the horse-hoarse merger in Standard American English.
Master the horse-hoarse merger — the nearly universal r-controlled vowel merger in modern SAE.
Lesson 65: [æ/ɑ/ɔ/ʌ] – Cat, cot, caught, cut. Master the Northern Cities Vowel Shift in Standard American English.
Master the Northern Cities Vowel Shift — how vowels rotate in Chicago, Detroit, and Buffalo speech.
Lesson 66: [aɪ/eɪ] – Time, ride, my. Master the Southern Vowel Shift in Standard American English.
Master the Southern Vowel Shift — how diphthongs flatten and vowels shift in Southern American English.