Can you name the words by their IPA transcriptions? by JayHankEdLyon

Can you name the words by their IPA transcriptions?

created by JayHankEdLyon

Enter a word in the box below
Correctly named words will show up below
Answers MUST be guessed in order
This is loose, obviously: try to pronounce the given words as if the letters were IPA. As is semi-common in English, [r] will be used for our letter 'R' for the sake of ease. General American.
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IPA	Word
[not]?
[bit]?
[but]?
[did]?
[pop]?
[pull]?
[jojo]?
[robot]?

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Tricky IPA Transcriptions Quiz

by JayHankEdLyon

Created Jul 22, 2010 in Language
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	JayHankEdLyon:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 18:18 GMT	2 points
	Based off an exercise from a first-semester linguistics class. I'm a bit too proud of that last one for my own good. Any creative suggestions will be added as I see fit; rather than have a lot of iterations of the same puzzle, I just kept it short.

	Tahnan:	Jul 22nd, 2010 at 18:52 GMT	3 points
	"pul" should only have one "l" in it.

	Loubert:	Jul 23rd, 2010 at 01:14 GMT	2 points
	Are "beat" and "beet" pronounced the same way?

	JayHankEdLyon:	Jul 23rd, 2010 at 02:28 GMT	-1 points
	I'll add beet. And I already said that it's loose. 'pul' isn't a word.

	sathka:	Jul 24th, 2010 at 02:36 GMT	2 points
	Re. 'pul' isn't a word. If it's not proper IPA, then it doesn't matter if it's a real word or not. [ll] indicates some kind of elongation, which is not how we pronounce "pool".

	Pit_trout:	Jul 24th, 2010 at 13:44 GMT	2 points
	Are foreign words in common usage good enough? If so: "jus" = "use" is quite nice. Also: "mail" = "mile"? (diphthongs surely have lotes of unexplored possibilities here...)

	Pit_trout:	Jul 24th, 2010 at 17:47 GMT	2 points
	...ooh, and if proper names are allowed: "lurid" = "Lou Reed" :-)

	hidzb:	Feb 1st, 2011 at 23:19 GMT	1 point
	this was fun, not really IPA technically speaking as [pull] would only need one [l], and as far as I'm aware two "l"s are rarely used (if ever), for words with an elongated sound there's a specific marking on the l (similar to ~ across it) to note this.

	keksik:	Mar 25th, 2012 at 03:17 GMT	1 point
	As far as I can tell, there are no actual IPA symbols present in this game. is not the symbol for the diphthong is "pope". Also, you have to establish what dialect you're transcribing into here. NAS? Ridiculous. If you're going to do an IPA game, at least download the readily available symbol software.