A hard “g” is pronounced “g” as in golf, pig, running, great, gum, fragrant, grasp, glut, and progress.

When g is in front of an i, y, or e, it is soft and says /j/. For example: giant, gypsy, and gem. When g is in front of any other letter, it says /g/. For example: go, gave, and gravel.

“Soft” G — when g represents the “j” sound.

Sir: Geese is in fact pronounced G followed by eese— GEESE. Goose, the singular form of the plural noun “geese” is pronounced as it is spelled: the two vowels O combine to be pronounce with a long U sound.

Usually, a c or g sound is hard or soft depending on the vowel that follows it. Here’s the general rule: When c or g meets a, o, or u, its sound is hard. cap, cave, colt, comedy, curly, cuddle gas, gather, goblet, goddess, gum, gutter. When c or g meets e, i, or y, its sound is soft.

The “G” in GIF stands for Graphic, which is pronounced with a hard G. It’s Graphic Interchange Format; Not Jiraffic Interchange Format. “Gift” is GIF’s closest neighbor.

Unlike the letter c, which is an alternate spelling for the sounds of k and s and has no sound of its own, the letter g does have one sound of its own: the “hard” sound heard in glove. The second sound of g, the “soft” sound heard in giant, represents the sound that belongs to the letter j [j].

Here’s the rule: When ‘c’ comes directly before the letters ‘e’, ‘i’ or ‘y’ we use the /s/ sound. in other cases we use a /k/ sound.

The single letter c pronounced as /k/ can come almost anywhere in the word and comes before the vowels a, o, and u. The double letter c pronounced as /k/ comes after a short vowel. The letter k comes before the vowels i, e, or y. It also comes at the end of one-syllable words after any sound except a short vowel sound.

Due to the succeeding ‘i’ the pronunciation of “citten” would not agree with that of “cat”, hence “kitten” is used. “Cat” originates from the French “chat” while “kitten” originates from the German “Katze”.

The reason you know this is because there is a rule for how a “c” should be pronounced: Before “a”, “o”, or “u” – back vowels, since they’re all pronounced at the back of your mouth – C is pronounced /k/.

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The letters ‘c’ and ‘g’ in Italian are hard sounding, as in “cat” and “gap,” except when followed by an ‘i’ or an ‘e’. When followed by an ‘i’ or an ‘e’ the ‘c’ and the ‘g’ will be soft, as in “ciao” and “Cinzano”, or “gelato” (ice-cream) or “gin” (same as in English).

Italian Alphabet and Sounds

Below are some examples of how to pronounce Italian consonant digraphs correctly.

• CH- Spoken as K (for example, Che)
• GN- G is silent and N is hard (for example, Gnocchi)
• GLI- G is silent, and L is the focus (for example, Famiglia)
• SC- Before A, O, and U, it sounds like SK (for example, Scarpe).

So to recap: C is usually pronounced like K, even when you get the letters CH together. It’s only pronounced as a soft “ch” sound (like in chair) when it’s followed by the letters e or i.

Alphabet. The letters J, K, W, X and Y are not part of the proper alphabet, and appear only in loanwords (e.g. ‘jeans’, ‘weekend’), foreign names, and in a handful of native words—such as the names Jesolo, Bettino Craxi, and Walter, which all derive from regional languages.

In English, ch is most commonly pronounced as [tʃ], as in chalk, cheese, cherry, church, much, etc. Ch can also be pronounced as [k], as in ache, choir, school and stomach. Most words with this pronunciation of ch find their origin in Greek words with the letter chi, like mechanics, chemistry and character.

The word comes from the Latin debitum, with a “b”, so it made sense to them to add a “b” to the spelling of a word where no “b” was pronounced. As you may have noticed, it still isn’t pronounced, but however futile it may have been, it caught on.

5 Answers. Well, the T is not entirely silent. The words that do include the T has a kind of a T-sound starting it off. If you look at another word where the ch is not including the T is “bachelor”, and it is not so sharp (more like a D-sound than a T-sound).

This generalization states that when you hear the /ch/ sound at the end of a syllable AND it is immediately preceded by a short vowel, it is spelled -tch. If there is a consonant or vowel team before the /ch/, it is spelled -ch. -tch will never come at the beginning of a word.

The Meaning of TCH TCH means “Sound of disagreement, frustration” So now you know – TCH means “Sound of disagreement, frustration” – don’t thank us.

TCH. The most common and perhaps the only true consonant trigraph in English is TCH, which forms the sound /ʧ/. It almost always appears at the end of base words, as in: batch (/bæʧ/)

Use -tch to spell the /ch/ sound immediately after a short vowel in a one syllable word. Do not use -tch in words that do not use a short vowel. Do not use -tch when /ch/ is not immediately after the vowel.

Study the word list: Using tch to spell the /ch/ sound

The consonant digraph (ch) has three different sounds, the most common of which is the “ch” heard in chimney and much. “ch” is also presented as ch=sh and ch=k. Consonant digraphs are two-letter combination which result in one speech sound (not a blend)….Read these words.