Lecture No.15
Consonant letters and their sounds
A consonant letter usually represents one consonant sound. Some consonant letters, for example, c, g, s, can represent two different consonant sounds
Letters sounds examples
b /b/ baby, best, buy, rubber, rob
c /s/ center, cellar, cigerette, cinema, agency, notice
/k/ cake, come, clean, cry, scratch, act, panic
d /d/ day, dear, duty, admire
f /f/ fast, flight
g /g/ game, gap
/?/ general, gin, giant, agent, egypt, huge
/?/ mirage, beige, rouge
h /h/ here, hair, behind
/./ hour, honour, honest, heir, vehicle,
j /?/ jam, jane, jelly, jim, jingle, joke, just
k /k/ kate, kind, sky
q(qu) /kw/ quality, question, quite, quote, equal, require,
/k/ unique, technique, antique, grotesque
S /s/ send, simple, release
/z/ cause, present, reason, realism, advise, always, is, was
X /ks/ exercise, exchange, expect, axis, fix, relax
/gz/ exam, exact, executive, exrt, xist, exit, exult
/z/ xenom, xerox, xenophobia, xylophone
Consonant combination
Letters sounds examples
Cc /ks/ accent, accept, access, accident
/k/ accomodate, account, accuse, occur
Ch /?/ chain, check, chief, choose, teacher
Ch (Latin, Greek) /k/ character, chemical, mechanic, ache
Ch (French) /?/ champagne, chef, machine
Ck /k/ black, pack, deckkick, pick, pocket
Dge /?/ bridge, edge, judge, knowledge, budget
Gh /f/ cough, enough, rough, tough, laugh
/g/ ghost, ghastly
/./ though, through, weigh, neighbour, bought
Gu /g/ guard, guess, guest, guide, guitar
/gw/ language, linguistics
Ng /?/ king, sing, singer, bang, long, tongue
/?g/ finger, anger, angry, single, longer
Ph /f/ phone, photograph, phrase, phenomena, biography
Qu /kw/ quality, quite, question, equal, require
/k/ antique, unique
Sc /s/ science, scissors, scene, scent
/sk/ scan, scandal, scare, score
Sch /sk/ school, scholar, scheme, schedule
Sh /?/ share, shine, shoe, fish, push
Th /?/ thank, thick, thought, auther, breath, bath
/?/ this, that, though, father, breathe, bathe
Wh /w/ what, where, when, why, which
/h/ who, whom, whose, whole