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Silent Letters | English Pronunciation & Vocabulary | PART 1

Video    mmmEnglish    30 November 2011

 

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The Guardian       p. 16        17 February 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian        p. 14        16 June 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"k" ne se prononce pas ("k" muet) :

 

know, knew, known

 

knowledge

 

knock

 

knee

 

knife

 

knight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"l" muet :

 

syntaxe

 

voyelle + l + consonne

 

talk

 

walk

 

should

 

would

 

could

 

half

 

calm

 

salmon

 

folk

 

Malcolm X

 

Lincoln

 

 

 

exception:

 

belt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"w" muet :

 

answer    /    answer

 

who

 

whom

 

whose

 

Dulwich

 

Greenwich

 

sword

 

down

 

download

 

whole

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"b" muet :

 

doubt

 

debt

 

climb

 

climber

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"r" médian muet  / "r" final quasi-muet :

 

"r" final > voir liaisons

 

Spiderman

 

Superman

 

March

 

start / start

 

understand

 

share

 

target

 

agree

 

confirm

 

star

 

car

 

heart

 

firefighter

 

supermarket worker

 

Christopher

 

Mister Howard

 

Mister Speaker

 

Lord Pierson

 

General Miller

 

Blair

 

Oscar Wilde

 

Europe

 

France

 

British

 

leader

 

cartridge

 

wireless internet

 

weather forecast

 

membership

 

the first programme

 

the Prime Minister

 

forecast

 

desert

 

sport

 

war

 

offer

 

work

 

energy

 

word

 

part

 

surprize

 

forces

 

power

 

yesterday

 

mother

 

farm

 

hour

 

smart card

 

garden

 

murder

 

party

 

problem

 

warning

 

weather

 

November

 

American

 

Number ten Downing Street

 

modern American popular culture

 

Ashford

 

Stratford

 

Oxford

 

fly cheaper this summer

 

four

 

ours

 

very warm

 

important

 

first

 

pretty hard

 

of course

 

more

 

better

 

straightforward

 

particular

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"p" muet :

 

psychiatrist

 

pneumonia

 

cupboard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"s" muet :

 

island

 

aisle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"t" muet :

 

castle

 

Westminster

 

mortgage

 

listen

 

Christmas

 

waltz

 

often / often

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"d" muet :

 

Wednesday

 

landscape

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"c" muet :

 

Tucson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"g" / "gh" muet :

 

might

 

fight

 

high

 

highlight

 

night

 

neighbour

 

right

 

tight

 

weight

 

height

 

eight

 

design

 

Washington

 

Buckingham Palace

 

Kensington Palace

 

Howard Hughes

 

"gh" se prononce / f /

dans

laugh, laughter,

rough, tough, enough

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"b" muet :

 

bomb

 

bombing

 

dumb

 

doubt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"a" muet :

 

marriage

 

miscarriage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"i" muet :

 

parliament

 

suit

 

suit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-ing / -g

 

Anglais britannique standard :

'g'

ne se prononce ici presque pas.

 

 

 

-ing

 

 

"dingue" ou de "ding" (ding dong)

 

* I'm goingue to Paris.

 

 

reading

 

swimming

 

smoking

 

enjoying

 

young

 

song

 

mounting feeling

 

good morning

 

 

 

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