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If they aren't pronounced, why did you put them there?
Because non-rhotic varieties of English use them to distinguish /æ/ from /ɑ/ (i.e., a from ar). Cf. the strange, to USan eyes, reference in the first chapter of Winnie the Pooh contrasting ther Pooh with the Pooh (i.e., /ðə/ and /ðiː/). (It's one of the reasons to use IPA rather than ad hoc pseudo-phonemic spellings.)
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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