21個子音字母的閉音節為：

1) [p] pen,

2) [b] bed, comb

3) [t] tell,

4) [d ] day, played, wanted

5) [k] cold, sky, quick, school, back, accept, box

6) [g] big, go, guess, language

7) [m] man

8) [n] nine, knife, autumn

9) [N] bank, uncle, English, sing,

10) [ l ] land, world

11) [r] read, write,

12) [f] five, cough, laugh

13) [v] voice, of

14) [W] think,

15) [T] this, bathe

16) [s] sit, miss, science, case, scarf

17) [z] zoo, close

18) [F] sure, she, social, nation

19) [V] pleasure

20) [h] hot, who, hour

21) [w] wall, what, ans

母音字母（a e i o u）在重讀閉音節中讀短音:[æ] [e] [i] [כ] [۸]。閉音節，就是一個單詞以子音字母結尾，但r音節除外。

母音+子音的閉音節單詞，比如，

at [æt] 在，in [in] 在…裡，us [ʌs] 我們(賓格)， it [it] 它，is [iz] 是，up [ʌp]向上…等。它們的母音字母都發的短音。