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The English digraphs ''ch, ng, qu, sh, th'' are not used.
== IPA's purpose and Wikipedia's use of IPA ==
IPA's purposes are to 1) represent the [[phonetics]] of words (how they sound) and 2) to give samples of the [[phonology]] of a language (how the language as a whole sounds). The second purpose concerns only linguists. The first purpose concerns any interested reader, but only to a limited degree, as transcribing words into IPA does not need to be perfect or overly [[Phonetic transcription#Narrow versus broad transcription|precise]] (something for fluent IPA users to consider). The word "transcribe" is used to distinguish this from normal writing or spelling, which has other purposes (such as preserving word etymologies and meaning).
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