Table 5. Major frequency distribution of the onsets of men and women in the Buckeye Corpus. The column head orth represents orthographic forms, while pron stands for the pronounced phonetic symbols of English consonants. n is the number of occurrences. m_n and w_n are the numbers of occurrences of men and women, respectively. Ø represents deletion.

Orth	Pron	m_n	w_n	Orth	Pron	m_n	w_n	Orth	Pron	m_n	w_n
b	b	6,902	6,605	jh	ch	92	72	st	s	79	54
	v	82	63		jh	1,735	1,850		st	1,611	1,262
	Ø	517	509		zh	90	73	str	str	123	111
bl	bl	318	279	k	g	80	59	t	ch	91	68
br	br	280	190		k	5,847	5,417		d	711	731
ch	ch	772	848		kl	77	68		dx	2,075	1,977
	sh	161	205	kl	kl	409	351		n	190	188
d	d	4,814	4,569	kr	kr	274	239		nx	332	253
	dx	1,439	1,468	kw	kw	193	128		t	5,932	5,384
	n	128	118	ky	ky	76	70		tq	178	242
	nx	60	78	l	l	7,443	6,617		Ø	987	668
	Ø	614	543		Ø	687	633	th	dh	188	91
dh	d	341	236	m	m	6,634	6,285		th	2,135	2,581
	dh	9,586	9,695		Ø	128	62	thr	thr	293	250
	dx	79	60	my	my	97	57	tr	chr	232	193
	l	129	55	n	n	5,572	5,361	tr		250	226
	n	1,565	1,730		nx	1,967	2,102	tw	tw	156	138
	s	118	113		Ø	753	498	v	v	2,290	2,291
	t	218	85	ny	ny	110	108		Ø	124	57
	th	483	513	p	p	4,073	3,307	vr	vr	259	311
	z	194	170	pl	pl	453	305	w	hhw	53	72
dr	dr	192	190	pr	p	92	83		w	10,188	9,482
f	f	3,708	3,099	pr	pr	855	680		Ø	906	562
	fr	162	159	py	py	84	68	y	ny	80	90
fl	fl	116	101	r	r	3,879	3,982		sh	53	69
fr	f	95	96		Ø	1,015	686		y	5,974	6,461
	fr	567	420	s	s	7,789	6,462		Ø	634	223
g	g	3,855	3,466	sh	sh	2,024	2,041	z	s	66	102
gr	gr	477	502	sk	sk	519	503		z	932	780
hh	hh	5,373	5,984	sl	sl	143	93	zh	zh	86	91
	Ø	1,382	1,369	sm	sm	107	89
				sp	sp	454	393