—employed as a functionality phrase before a suitable noun to tell apart the issue with the referent from the normal, previous, or hypothetical afflictionDuring the Intercontinental Phonetic Alphabet, ⟨a⟩ is employed for the open entrance unrounded vowel, ⟨ä⟩ is used for the open up central unrounded vowel, and ⟨ɑ⟩ is useful for the