When c is in front of an i, y, or e, it is soft and says /s/. For example: city, cycle, and race. When c is in front of any other letter, it is hard and says /k/. For example: camera, car, and cone. When g is in front of an i, y, or e, it is soft and says /j/.
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. When c or g meets e, i, or y, its sound is soft.
The "Rule of c" covers the pronunciation of the letter "c", indicating when "c" stand for the /s/ sound. The rule is: The letter c represents /s/ before the letters e, i or y; otherwise it represents /c/.
Some soft C words include cell, cereal, cinder, cycle, fancy, decimal, and pencil.
The letter "C" can make two different sounds based on the rules of English pronunciation. It can make the "hard" sound, as in "cake" and "cut", and it can make the "soft" sound as in "cell" and "cinder".
In 1-syllable words use the letter 'c' with the vowels a, o, u. 'c' is the most common spelling for /k/ at the beginning of words. Examples: cap cop cup. Use the letter 'k' with the vowels i and e. Examples: kit Ken kin.
When c is in front of an i, y, or e, it is soft and says /s/. For example: city, cycle, and race. When c is in front of any other letter, it is hard and says /k/. For example: camera, car, and cone.
In the Latin-based orthographies of many European languages, including English, a distinction between hard and soft ⟨c⟩ occurs in which ⟨c⟩ represents two distinct phonemes. The sound of a hard ⟨c⟩ often precedes the non-front vowels ⟨a⟩, ⟨o⟩ and ⟨u⟩, and is that of the voiceless velar stop, /k/ (as in car).
Many students will identify the /s/ sound for c, when most of the words they are able to read use the hard c sound as in the words cat, cup and cake.
A soft "c" is pronounced "s" as in cell, city, decision, receive, license, distance, recently, pronounce, juicy, and cylinder. A hard "c" is pronounced "k"' as in call, correct, cup, cross, class, rescue, fact, public, panic, and ache.
The "Ch" Pair a “c” with an “h” and — most of the time, at least — you have a cushy, soft sound, as in “cheese,” “chew,” or “teach.” The sound of the “ch” changes depending on the placement and the origin of the word. In English, when “ch” is at the beginning or end of a word, it's the soft pronunciation.
G is normally associated with two sounds, as represented by the words GIRL and the word GIANT. The G in GIRL is a sound referred to as the 'hard' sound and the G in GIANT is referred to as a 'soft' sound, similar to the letter J.
Look at the word and if the letter after the c or g is an i, e, or y, then the g or c will most likely make the soft sound. If the letter after the g or c is any other letter, it will most likely make the hard sound. The hard sound is more common for both the c and the g.
Some soft g words include gym, age, gentle, giant, germ, genius, bridge, huge, angel, and danger.
hard c: cup, coat, carrot, cow, can, curly. soft c: cent, circus, cereal, circle, center, cyclone.
So, let's review what we have learned about common English suffixes: The single letter c pronounced as /k/ can come almost anywhere in the word and comes before the vowels a, o, and u.
Rule G is a prohibition against railroad employees working while intoxicated. It was originally a near-universal provision of individual railroads' operating rules, and is now part of the universal code of the Association of American Railroads.
Another way to remember this rule: If a word has a short vowel sound and does not end in e, double the consonant before adding ing or ed. When adding a suffix to words that end with ic, change the ending to ick.
In English, “Pacific Ocean” has three “c”s, each pronounced differently. There are no clues to the reader as to how—it's assumed you already know. This is a common frustration with those who study English as a second or additional language.
Chug, Corn, Cure, Chin, Cage, Coax, Cope, Club, Cozy, Cash, Coat, City, Cute, Chef, Coin, Chat, Clap, Crabs, Curt, Cart, Clogged, Chop, Cake, Clues, Cold.