The English voiceless plosives are not aspirated in word-final position. Voiced plosives are not aspirated.
Ex. For each word beginning with an aspirated plosive find its minimal pair beginning with a voiced plosive and a phonetic (not spelling) anagram where the /p/, /t/ or /k/ comes at the end of the word.
e.g. [ph] pan - [b] ban - [p] nap
[ph] pack, pat, peak, pill, pin, post, pot
[th] tab, talk, tan, teal, teem, torn, tuck
[kh] cab, cap, coast, cot, curl, cut, Kate, kit
KEY
pack-back-cap, pat-bat-tap, peak-beak-keep, pill-bill/Bill-lip, pin-bin-nip, post-boast-stop, pot-bot-top
tab-dab-bat, talk-dork-caught/court, tan-Dan-gnat, teal-deal-lead (verb), teem-deem-meet/meat, torn-dawn-naught, tuck-duck-cut
cab-gab-back, cap-gap-pack, coast-ghost-Stoke (town name), cot-got-tock, curl-girl-lurk, cut-gut-tuck, Kate-gate/gait-take, kit-git-tick
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