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