<human>:  In the International Phonetic Alphabet, or IPA, why is the letter pronounced / / and not ?
<bot>: That’s because the letter <unk> is pronounced /<unk>/ in English. The letter <unk> is used in English to represent sounds that we don’t pronounce, such as the glottal stop. The letter <unk> is pronounced as /<unk>/ in English because it is pronounced that way in all other languages.