Jim, Here's what I was talking about on that forum if your links were messed up. Anyway, there are some questions below.
A lot of people ask this common question and there's a lot of different answers. It depends on your accent.
Consonants
[b]-bag
[tS]-chip
[d]-dog
[f]-frog
[g]-get
[h]-heat
[j]-yes
[dZ]-jump
[k]-cat
[l]-light
[m]-might
[n]-night
[o]-open
[p]-party
[r]-red, car
[s]-snake, bass
[S]-sharp, fish
[t]-toast, tiger
[th]-think, thin
[TH]-there, that
[v]-van, verb
[w]-weed, why
[z]-zoo
[Z]-beige, vision
Vowels
[@]-cat, calf, half, ant, aunt, bag
[e]-set, get, ten, fence
[i]-sit
[a:]-hot, caught, father
[^]-cup
[u]-put
[..]-arrest, soda
[ei]-say
[ai]-sigh
[i:] seed, greet, leak
[u:] food, grew, new, shoe, suit
[ju:] mute, beautiful
[a:] hot, father, caught
[i:] seed, greet, leak
[u:] food, grew, new, shoe, suit
[i{:}] happy, money, body, monkey
[Ou]-so
[oi]-coin
[au]-mount
[o:]-saw
[e:(r)]-burglar, dirt, hurt
[e..]-yeah
[i..]-idea
[u..(r)]-cure, pure, tour
[o]-pot, hot, stomp
[.] ''syllabic consonants'' [.l] and [.n]. ''bitten'', ''little''.
Phonemes that don't exist in most dialects but exist in some.
[W]-whale, what, when- ''used by those who distinguish ''whine/wine''
[A]-made, daze, pane, mane, ate= ''A monophthong used by some Northern Irish people that distinguish these words from ''maid'', ''days'', ''pain'', ''main'' and ''eight''.
[O]-toe, sole, nose, groan=A ''A monophthong used by people from Liverpool people that distinguish these words from ''tow'', ''soul'', ''knows'' and ''grown''.
[E]-tenner ''used by some Northern Irish people that distinguish this word from ''tenor'' by using a longer vowel.''
[C]-human, huge, humorous ''a voiceless ''y'' as opposed to [hj].
[J]-canyon, lasagna, piñata ''Palatal nasal sound'' used by some people, distinguished by some people from the ''ni'' in ''opinion'', ''companion'' and ''onion'' [nj].
[@:]-mad, sad, bad ''used by some Southern Englishmen that don't rhyme these words with ''lad'' and ''pad''.
[I]-libel ''A diphthong used by some Scots that don't rhyme this word with bible.
[ŭ]-book ''A vowel used by some Scots that use a different vowel in ''book'' than in ''foot''.
[ö]-lose ''A vowel used by some Scots that use a different vowel in ''lose'' than the vowel in ''moos'' and ''loose''. [ö]'s IPA symbol is [o].
[ü]-loose ''A vowel used by some Scots that use a different vowel in ''loose'' than in ''lose''.
More information on those three vowels [ŭ], [ö], [ü].
http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Philologie-II/fb1413/roesel/seminar0203/regional_varieties/Scotland.htm
Other phonemes that some people may use but most people don't.
[K]-loch
[n:]-contretemps ''nasal vowels''
[L]-Llwyd ''Welsh voiceless ''l''
[y]-rue [IPA symbol]
[ø]-foehn [IPA symbol]
[Y]-guidwillie [IPA symbol]
[a]-a la ''pronounced [a-la]''
[j:]-digne [''indicates that during the articulation of the preceding consonant the tongue has substantially the position it has for the articulation of the \y\ of yard, as in digne [dEnj:] Thus [j:] does not itself represent a sound but rather modifies the preceding symbol.]
[R]-rue, rouge ''voiced uvular fricative''
[r:]-perro ''tapped ''r'' - the ''alveolar flap''.
Question,
Which of these phonemes do you use and which of them do you not use?
Some other questions,
Which of these phonemes do you think should be included in a spelling reform and which of them should be ignored? Do you think that a good spelling reform system should include all of these phonemes?
Another question,
If the alphabet were extended to include a letter for every sound in the English language should letters for all of these phonemes be included?
Another question,
Is [hw] ''which is not used by most of us'' a phoneme and is [hj] ''which is used by most of us'' a phoneme?''