The word "shatford" can be phonetically transcribed as /ʃætfɔːd/. The first syllable "shat" is pronounced with a voiceless palato-alveolar fricative sound /ʃ/, followed by a short vowel sound /æ/. The second syllable is pronounced as /t/ followed by the open-mid back vowel sound /ɔː/ and the voiced dental fricative sound /ð/. The spelling of "shatford" follows English phonetic rules whereby the "sh" represents the /ʃ/ sound and the "a" represents the short vowel sound /æ/.