English spelling should be more phoneticInterest in the scientific description of sound led to the invention of the International Phonetic Association (IPA) in 1888. IPA is a association to develop a phonetic alphabet to symbolize the sound of all languages. According to Fromkin, Rodman, Hyams. (2003), the use of the Roman alphabet in the English writing system had inspired the IPA to use many Roman letters in the invention of phonetic symbols. Unlike ordinary letters which may or may not represent the same sounds in the same or different languages, these alphabetic characters have a consistent value (Fromkin et al., 2003). According to phonetic transcription which is governed by the “One Sound, One Symbol” principle, there should be a list of 26 distinct sounds in the English alphabet since there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet which can be further divided into consonants and vowels. However, there are 42 different phonemes for the 26 letters of the English alphabet. There are 15 vowel sounds and 27 consonant sounds in the English language. The 15 vowels are /i/, /ɪ/, /e/, /ɛ/, /æ/, /ʊ/, /uː/, /ʌ/, /o/,/ɔ/, /a/, /ə /, /aj/, /aw/ and /ɔj/ while the consonants are /p/, /b/, /f/, /v/, /m/, /w/, / /, /ð/, / t /, /d/, /s/, /z/, /n/, /l/, /r/, /tʃ/, /dʒ/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/, /j/,/k/ , /g/, /ŋ/,/ h/, /?/, and /hw/ (Fromkin et al., 2003). Hilton & Hyder (1992) stated that some English words are not written as they are pronounced; the pronunciation can also vary depending on regional accents and from one English-speaking country to another. Cases where English words are not written as pronounced can be seen in words like business, /bIznəs/ and what, /wɒt/. Rubba (2003) stated that it is important to remember that an IPA symbol always has the same sound which differs from the English spelling. For example, the English letter s has various sound values ​​in English spelling, for example words pronounced as /s/ such as "so", "bus" and the /z/ of words such as "easy", "busy". In IPA, the letter s in English always represents the /s/ sound in "see" and "bus". The sounds represented by the letter s in 'easy', 'busy', are transcribed phonetically as /z/. So, this clearly shows that English spelling has violated the principles of phonetic transcription, “One sound, one symbol” (Rubba, 2003). It is always a problem for English learners as they often find it difficult when they discover some English. words that don't actually follow the principle “One sound, one symbol”..