There are plenty of words in the English language that smuggle in a ‘b’ where it’s not needed, supposedly. We provide support, structure and help achieve your goals. Learn English today with the world’s largest online school: EF English Live. This is true for all ‘ign’ words – imagine that the ‘ign’ sounds like ‘sigh’ (de-sigh-n mal-ighn). However, the ‘g’ lightens and elongates the vowel sound – to be pronounced ‘sigh-n’. Here’s a few more examples: gnome, benign, malign, design, deign, gnash, sign…Ī great example of how the ‘silent’ g isn’t quite silent if we didn’t pronounce the ‘g’ at all, this would be ‘sin’. We don’t sound the hard ‘guh’ sound of the ‘g’ in these words, but its inclusion does give a slight lengthening of the vowel sound – ‘for-reyn’. ‘Foreign’ is a classic example – the only thing ‘foreign’ in that word is the ‘g’! There are many words which sound normal, and should be spelt in a normal simple way – and all of a sudden there’s a ‘g’ in there. Other key words with silent ‘c’s include: ascend, ascent/descent, fascinate, fluorescent, incandescent, obscene, scene, scenario or scented. Likewise, the ‘c’ works in slightly softening what would otherwise be a very hard, hissy ‘ss’ sound. ‘Scene’ for instance, has the first sound slightly further forward in the mouth than ‘seen’, it’s rhyme. Whilst you do not hear the c, it does slightly change the sound. ‘Miscellaneous’ – pronounced ‘mis- sell- lay – nee – ous’.‘Muscle’ – we say the same as ‘mussel’, the seafood.However, when following an ‘s’ it is often silent. In English we say ‘re-seet’, with no ‘p’ sounding in the second syllable, though some would argue that the p is there to slightly soften the sound.Ī bit like the ‘k’, the ‘c’ is usually a hard sound (unless followed by an ‘h’ ‘ch’ is soft, think ‘cheese’, ‘cheers’). ‘Pneumonia’ – caused when you catch excessive cold – also has a silent p, so it is pronounced ‘new-moan-ee-a’.įinally, you’ll every now and then find a silent p in the middle of a word, such as ‘receipt’.
Indeed, when p or ‘ps’ starts a word it is almost always medical. Most of these words with silent ‘p’s are to do with the mind or the medicine of the mind: Psychology, psychiatry, psyche, psychological, psychotic or pseudo. The ‘p’, usually a popping sound made at the front of the mouth, is silenced when it precedes an ‘s’.
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