For me, I pronounce the “L” in folk, walk, and talk. I also pronounce the “T” in often.
What traditionally silent letters in English words have you actually started to pronounce?
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For me, I pronounce the “L” in folk, walk, and talk. I also pronounce the “T” in often.
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Salmon
Sal-mon
I used to say sa-mon
the k. as in k-nife, k-nee, k-nock, k-nowledge, etc. you k-now what i mean
puh-terodactyl
Colonel
CaLLLm
Knife knee knee I keep pronouncing the k
Why?
“ I pronounce the “L” in folk, walk, and talk.” Doesn’t everyone?
Iron. As in, “I-ron,” not “i-orn.”
The “L”s in those words are not traditionally silent. The “T” in “often” has been debated.
Kuh-nife….knife
La-sag-ne, it’s now one of my favourite words
Feb-roo-airy
Caulk. cauLLLLLk
The h in hour.
Is-land
WedNESday
Challllllk
Not the same, but I don’t have anywhere else to share this lol, but I pronunciate words with too much exaggeration lol. For example, bread is “B(the letter B)-READ. Or I’d just completely use a different word in place of another. For example, my knee, would be replaced with my kinesiology. Or even “ka-nee”.
I keep pronouncing the “Fuck Off” in “Have a nice day”, must be an age thing.
Bologna
Not me but my last name ends with a pf… everyone seems to feel the need to pronounce both of those letters.
Bologna… instead of boloney i just say bo-lag-nuh.
Psychopath
I like the say the t in whistle.
I use the silent P whenever I call someone Rick.
The second t in Trenton, NJ…just kidding, I would never do that ha
I always say Gnome with a hard G, it’s not annoying enough for people to comment, but you can just sense their distress. But for me the annoying one which is endemic is haitch instead of aitch for H . Giving the H an extra Huh grrrrrr! 😄😁
The silent “pee’ as in “bath”
I pronounce the “h” in “herb”
CloTHes
The D in Django, of course!
The L in salmon
Since when is the L in “folk” silent?!
I started saying the P in receipt, and unfortunately it stuck
I always pronounce it “salmon”
Michael McIntyre did a funny bit in this:
Silent Letter Day
I pronounce the h in herb. And for fun I pronounce the c in scissors (skissors) but a lot of ppl do that i think
This is just how people from Texas talk.
My favorite is to say an hectic situation with a silent h.
Fok, wak, and tak are not pronounced the same as folk, walk, and talk. Just sayin’.
Who doesn’t pronounce the L in walk? Am I weird?
The k in knob
The l in salmon
The S in sense
The u in quebec
The u in colour
I’ve stopped pronouncing the h in house
Uh, I’m literally an old lady and I’ve never heard anyone say folk, walk, or talk without pronouncing the “L”.
That is not some sort of unique thing that only you do.
The “E” in the word Winged. idk why but it feels more satisfying to say it like “Wing-Ed” instead of “wee-n-gd.”
The b in subtle
Sword
My dad pronounces Covid as co-ved. And heavily heavily hits that ed. Idk where he got it from, I’ve never heard anyone pronounce it like that before.
The Haytch in Herbs
90+% of the time, people say MysElf when the lower case should be silent.
The x in xylophone
All of them, all letters matter.
i pronounce the c in “fascinating”