And the letter 'h' is silent in the word 'ghost'.
Ghost letters are silent - you SEE them but you don't. HEAR them. That's cool to know but what's even cooler is that 31. spelling and phonogram rules explain 98% of English. words.
Firstly, when 'gh' is at the beginning of a word, or at the beginning of a stressed syllable, it is always pronounced /g/. Examples of this are ghost, ghastly, ghetto and spaghetti.
H is always silent in HONOUR, HOUR, HONEST, HEIR, VEHICLE & VEHEMENT. You don't say it after 'g' in GHOST, GHASTLY, AGHAST, GHERKIN & GHETTO, or after 'r' in RHINOCEROS, RHUBARB, RHYME and RHYTHM. It's normally silent after 'w': WHAT?
What do the words rope and ghost have in common? They both contain the vowel sound of the long O! This worksheet asks your child to complete a word search to practice the vowel sound of the long O.
Long <o> in VCC patterns such as "ghost" and "gold" The VCC pattern is very useful for marking short vowels. But because of things that happened hundreds of years ago in our language, long <o> often occurs in VCC patterns, where we would normally expect a short vowel, as in the words ghost and gold.
Can you guess what it is? The letter is V! There are various very valuable v-words, and that V is never silent!
But as Merriam-Webster Dictionary points out, one unusual letter is never silent: the letter V. While it makes an appearance in words like quiver and vivid, you can rest assured it always behaves the exact same way.
While English ghosts generally go, “boo!” or, “ooooooo!” ghosts in Japan have the sinister, “kekekeke,” while in Urdu they go, “hoho-haha,” and in Brazilian Portuguese, “huehuehue.”
In this lesson, you'll learn how to pronounce the OH as in ROSE vowel sound. You hear this sound in words like “home,” “control,” and “appropriate.” You might think this sound is pretty easy and you've already got it just right.
Break 'ghost' down into sounds: [GOHST] - say it out loud and exaggerate the sounds until you can consistently produce them.
There are silent vowels and silent consonants. Silent letters can help differentiate homophones (words that sound the same but have different spellings). Some silent letters give insight into the origin of a word.
The word is recorded from Old English (in form gāst) in the sense 'spirit, soul', and is of Germanic origin; the gh- spelling occurs first in Caxton, and was probably influenced by Flemish gheest.
Silent letters can distinguish between homophones, e.g. in/inn; be/bee; lent/leant. This is an aid to readers already familiar with both words. Silent letters may give an insight into the meaning or origin of a word; e.g. vineyard suggests vines more than the phonetic *vinyard would.
b is always silent in the spelling sequences mb and bt occurring in the word-final position: comb, numb, bomb, limb, debt... d is always silent in the spelling sequence dj: adjective, adjunct, adjacent... g is silent in the spelling sequence gm or gn: phlegm, gnarl, champagne, sign, gnat, gnaw...
F. While some people do in fact pronounce the second f in fifth, the first pronunciation given in our dictionary is the one that omits it. Overall, however, f is to be commended for its performance generally.
First, note that, in 'earth', there is no E /e/ that you have in 'ate'. Besides, there is no T in its pronunciation, although it is present in the spelling. Rather, what we have is the long form of the low A (ERR), plus the thither sound TH, which we have in month, length, three etc.
This one will depend on how you pronounce the word fifth, which has two common pronunciations: one in which both F's are pronounced and one in which the second F is not (as if it were spelled “fith”). As far as we know, this silent F pronunciation of fifth is the only example in English of a word with a silent F.
What are the words without vowels? The words without vowels are why, hmm, hymn, xlnt, wynd, myths, thy, dry, cyst, etc.
The short vowel sound for A can be found in words like apple, attitude, cat, actually, and can. Elephant begins with the short vowel sound of E.