Voiced Consonants
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Voiceless Consonants
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Examples
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/b/
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Bank, base, brain
(Silent b: bomb, climb, debt, doubt, dumb, lamb, plumber, thumb, subtle)
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/p/
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Period, Peasant, Palate (Silent p: Pneumonia, psychology, pseudonym, psychic)
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/v/
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Vain, Vision, Vinyl
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/f/
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Fair, Forte, Fan, Photo, Hyphen, Pharaoh, Catastrophe, Emphasis, Prophet
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/g/
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Grain, Grow, Grade, Green (Silent g: gnome, gnaw, assign, malign, foreign, reign)
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/k/
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Kite, King, Cardinal, Crush, Continent, Carry, Care, Scheme, Competence, Acquire
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/d/
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Dissolve, Dessert, Disease (Silent d: Wednesday, handsome, sandwich)
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/t/
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Track, Treason, Two (Silent t: castle, gourmet, ballet, rapport, soften)
Pop the T – take, stable, tent, trip
Flap the T – better, sweater, theater, twitter, meter
Silent T – inter, center, winter, enter
Hold the T – brat, bet, but, slit
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/ð/
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There, thy, though, leather, breathe, bathe, clothe
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/Ɵ/
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Three, thigh, thru, theater, breath, bath, cloth
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/ʒ/
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Pressure, garage, leisure, massage, pleasure, vision
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/ʃ/
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Direction, shrine, gracious, chivalry, champagne
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/ʤ/
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Surgery, journey, message, danger, project
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/tʃ/
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Chisel, literature, mixture, reach, choke (Silent ch : yacht)
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/z/
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Use, specialize, sarcasm, zone, Thursday (Silent z: rendezvous)
S is pronounced as /z/ when preceded by a voiced consonant or vowel sounds in plural forms:
Begs, beds, leaves, mobs, bells, jars, straws, limbs, slices, bridges, watches
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/s/
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Scatter, surface, scenario, scheme (Silent s: debris, island, aisle, bourgeois)
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/m/
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Mime, moment, martyr (Silent m: mnemonic)
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/n/
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Nine, none, November (Silent n: autumn, column, solemn, hymn)
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/ŋ/
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Lungs, Bang, Throng
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/h/
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Height, heaven, heart (Silent h: honest, ghost, heir, hour, what, whether)
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/l/
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Latitude, Localize, Legal, Balloon, Mall (Silent l: would, calf, half, yolk)
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/r/
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Reduce, Repertoire, Represent, Rapporteur
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/j/
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Yellow, Yacht, Yoke, Yard
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/w/
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Whistle, What, Water, Wing
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