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Silent consonants/Néma mássalhangzók

The following words all have a silent consonant (we write it down but we do not pronounce it).  

 

B: climb, comb, debt, doubt, dumb, lamb, thumb

C: fascinating, muscle, science, yacht

D: Wednesday, handkerchief

G: champagne, sign, foreign

H: hour, honest, yoghurt, exhausted

K: knife, knee, knock, know, knob

L: could, should, would, half, calm, palm, salmon, talk, walk

N: autumn

P: psychology, psychiatrist, receipt

R: iron

S: island

T: ballet, listen, often, fasten, duvet, whistle

W: answer, who, whose, write, wrong

 

Task:

In which of the words below is the gh silent, pronounced as /f/, pronounced as /g/?

ghetto, cough, although, night, tough, daughter, higher, ghost, enough, thorough, rough

silent: ……………………………………………………………..

/f/: …………………………………………………………………

/g/: ……………………………………………………………….

 

Solution:/Megoldás:

silent: although, higher, thorough, night, daughter

/f/: cough, rough, tough, enough

/g/: ghetto, ghost

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