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HOW TO PRONOUNCE CERTAIN CONSONANT LETTERS

Lets continue this previous post on pronunciation. Some commonly used English words in which certain consonant letters are silent are listed below:

It is silent before 'n' at the beginning of word:

gnarl	gnomic	gnome
gnat	gnash	gnu

It is silent before 'n' at the end of a word:

align	campaign	feign	resign
assign	champagne	foreign	sign
benign	consign	malign	sovereign

It is always silent in "Kh" and "rh"

Whaki	Khan	Khartoum	Rhetorie
Rheumatism	Rhinoceros	Rhubarb	Rhyme
Rhythm	Catarrh	Rhine	Rhodesia

When 'g' occurs at a syllable boundary in the middle of a word, it is usually pronounced:

diagnosis	ignoble	magnify	recognize
dignity	ignorant	magnificent	signal
ignite	magnet	repugnant	stagnant

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