Silent Letters

موضوع: Silent Letters الجمعة أبريل 29, 2011 6:11 pm

Silent Letters

Here is a list of common letter combinations with
silent letters. This list contains most of the silent letters that give English
as a second language students difficulties.

Silent B
B is not pronounced when following M at the end of
a word.
Climb / crumb / dumb / comb

Silent C
C is not pronounced in the ending "scle"
muscle

Silent D
D is not pronounced in the following common words:
Handkerchief / sandwich / Wednesday

Silent E
E is not pronounced at the end of words
and usually makes the vowel long.
Hope / drive / gave / write / site

Silent G
G is not often not pronounced when followed by an N

Champagne / foreign / sign / feign

Silent GH
GH is not pronounced before T and at the end of
many words
Thought / through / daughter / light / might /
right / fight / weigh

Silent H
H is not pronounced when following W.
Some speakers whisper the H before the W.
What / who / when / where / whether / why

Silent H
H is not pronounced at the beginning of many words.
Use the article "an" with unvoiced H. Here are some of the most
common:
Hour / honest / honor / heir / herb

Pronounced H
H is pronounced at the beginning of these
common words. Use the article "a" with voiced H.
Hill / history / height / happy / hangover

Silent K
K is not pronounced when followed by N at the
beginning of a word.
Knife / knee / know / knock / knowledge

Silent L
L is often not pronounced before L, D, F, M, K.
Calm / half / salmon / talk / balk / would / should

Silent N
N is not pronounced following M at the end of a
word.
Autumn / hymn

Silent P
P is not pronounced at the beginning of many words
using the suffix "psych" and "pneu".
Psychiatrist / pneumonia / psychotherapy /
psychotic

Silent S
S is not pronounced before L in the following
words:
Island / isle

Silent T
T is not pronounced in these common words:
Castle / Christmas / fasten / listen / often / whistle
/ thistle

Silent U
U is not pronounced before after G and before a
vowel.
Guess / guidance / guitar / guest

Silent W
W is not pronounced at the beginning of a word
followed by an R.
Wrap / write / wrong

Silent W
W is not pronounced with these three pronouns:
Who / whose / whom

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